Palaeontology

Papers
(The TQCC of Palaeontology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors20
Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland17
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem15
Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals15
Dinosaurian survivorship schedules revisited: new insights from an age‐structured population model14
Plant dispersal in the Devonian world (c. 419–359 Ma)14
A new proteid salamander (Urodela, Proteidae) from the middle Miocene of Hambach (Germany) and implications for the evolution of the family14
Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany13
Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage13
Correction to ‘Ecological novelty at the start of the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations of echinoderms’13
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Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia11
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Crypsis in the pelagic realm: evidence from exceptionally preserved fossil fish larvae from the Eocene Stolleklint Clay of Denmark10
Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage10
Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem10
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Trophic partitioning and feeding capacity in Permian bryozoan faunas of Gondwana10
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Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger9
Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?9
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Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization8
Discovery of proteinaceous moieties in Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshell8
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The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system8
Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa8
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Locomotory and morphological evolution of the earliest Silurian graptolite Demirastrites selected by hydrodynamics8
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Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition7
Machine‐learning‐based morphological analyses of leaf epidermal cells in modern and fossil ginkgo and their implications for palaeoclimate studies7
Computational fluid dynamics confirms drag reduction associated with trilobite queuing behaviour7
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The many ways toward punctuated evolution6
The utility of probability plotting in palaeobiology6
Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires6
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction6
High‐precision body mass predictors for small mammals: a case study in the Mesozoic6
I believe I can fly… New implications for the mode of life and palaeoecology of the Late Triassic Ozimek volans based on its unique long bone histology6
Correction to ‘Establishing temperate crustose early Holocene coralline algae as archives for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the shallow water habitats of the Mediterranean Sea’6
Paradox lost: wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter‐feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates6
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Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs6
Developmental models shed light on the earliest dental tissues, using Astraspis as an example5
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An Appalachian population of neochoristoderes (Diapsida, Choristodera) elucidated using fossil evidence and ecological niche modelling5
Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity5
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms5
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