OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palaeontology is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity	31
Constructing and testing hypotheses of dinosaur foot motions from fossil tracks using digitization and simulation	20
Evolution of ecospace occupancy by Mesozoic marine tetrapods	20
Formation binning: a new method for increased temporal resolution in regional studies, applied to the Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record of North America	19
Comparing surface digitization techniques in palaeontology using visual perceptual metrics and distance computations between 3D meshes	17
Diverse communities of Bacteria and Archaea flourished in Palaeoarchaean (3.5–3.3 Ga) microbial mats	16
Sporopollenin chemistry and its durability in the geological record: an integration of extant and fossil chemical data across the seed plants	15
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene	14
Cochleatina: an enigmatic Ediacaran–Cambrian survivor among small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs)	14
Stranger than a scorpion: a reassessment of Parioscorpio venator, a problematic arthropod from the Llandoverian Waukesha Lagerstätte	14
Ten more years of discovery: revisiting the quality of the sauropodomorph dinosaur fossil record	14
Bayesian analyses in phylogenetic palaeontology: interpreting the posterior sample	13
Silica entry and accumulation in standing trees in a hot‐spring environment: cellular pathways, rapid pace and fossilization potential	13
Palaeontology meets metacommunity ecology: the Maastrichtian dinosaur fossil record of North America as a case study	12
Recognizing pulses of extinction from clusters of last occurrences	12
Tracing the patterns of non‐marine turtle richness from the Triassic to the Palaeogene: from origin to global spread	12
Potential evolutionary trade‐off between feeding and stability in Cambrian cinctan echinoderms	12
Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger	11
The Collins’ monster, a spinous suspension‐feeding lobopodian from the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia	11
Mammal‐bearing gastric pellets potentially attributable to Troodonformosus at the Cretaceous Egg Mountain locality, Two Medicine Formation, Montana, USA	11
A new solution to an old riddle: elongate dinosaur tracks explained as deep penetration of the foot, not plantigrade locomotion	11
Multibody dynamics analysis (MDA) as a numerical modelling tool to reconstruct the function and palaeobiology of extinct organisms	11
Learning to see the wood for the trees: machine learning, decision trees, and the classification of isolated theropod teeth	10
Dietary constraints of phytosaurian reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis	10
Oldest fossil ciliates from the Cryogenian glacial interlude reinterpreted as possible red algal spores	10

Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterizing the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem Gnathostomata)	10
Ups and downs of belemnite diversity in the Early Jurassic of Western Tethys	10
Evolutionary stasis, ecophenotypy and environmental controls on ammonite morphology in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Western Interior Seaway, USA	10
A method for mapping morphological convergence on three‐dimensional digital models: the case of the mammalian sabre‐tooth	9
Empirical distributions of homoplasy in morphological data	9
An intermediate type of medusa from the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu Formation, South China	9
Network‐based biostratigraphy for the late Permian to mid‐Triassic Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) in South Africa enhances biozone applicability and stratigraphic correlation	8
Palaeobiology of the early sauropodomorph Mussaurus patagonicus inferred from its long bone histology	8
Discovery of proteinaceous moieties in Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshell	8
Cephalic biomechanics underpins the evolutionary success of trilobites	8
Biomechanical properties of the jaws of two species of Clevosaurus and a reanalysis of rhynchocephalian dentary morphospace	8
Patterns of bilateral asymmetry and allometry in Late Devonian Polygnathus conodonts	8
Palaeobiogeography of the North Pacific toothed mysticetes (Cetacea, Aetiocetidae): a key to Oligocene cetacean distributional patterns	8
Computational fluid dynamics confirms drag reduction associated with trilobite queuing behaviour	8
Did hard substrate taxa diversify prior to the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?	7
The ontogenetic pattern of neurocentral suture closure in the axial skeleton of Hyperodapedontinae (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria) and its evolutionary implications	7
Skeletal and soft tissue completeness of the acanthodian fossil record	7
Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs	7
Slow and fast evolutionary rates in the history of lepidosaurs	7
Diversification dynamics of cheilostome bryozoans based on a Bayesian analysis of the fossil record	7
Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals	7
Ediacaran macroalgal holdfasts and their evolution: a case study from China	6
Crypsis in the pelagic realm: evidence from exceptionally preserved fossil fish larvae from the Eocene Stolleklint Clay of Denmark	6
Algal affinity and possible life cycle of the early Cambrian acritarch Yurtusia uniformis from South China	6
Dryopithecine palaeobiodiversity in the Iberian Miocene revisited on the basis of molar endostructural morphology	6
Morphological disparity and evolutionary rates of cranial and postcranial characters in sloths (Mammalia, Pilosa, Folivora)	6
Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity	6
Overcoming the constraints of spiral growth: the case of shell remodelling	6
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	6
Quantitative palaeobathymetric reconstructions based on foraminiferal proxies: a case study from the Neogene of south‐west Spain	6
One million years of diversity shifts in amphibians and reptiles in a Mediterranean landscape: resilience rules the Quaternary	6
Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem	6
Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity	6
Epidermal complexity in the theropod dinosaur Juravenator from the Upper Jurassic of Germany	6