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Papers

(The median citation count of Paleobiology is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	25
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	20
Hearing from the ocean and into the river: the evolution of the inner ear of Platanistoidea (Cetacea: Odontoceti)	20
Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	17
Relative oversampling of carbonate rocks in the North American marine fossil record	16
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	16
PAB volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	16
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	15
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	15
Permian–Triassic phylogenetic and morphologic evolution of rhynchonellide brachiopods	14
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	13
Why the long teeth? Morphometric analysis suggests different selective pressures on functional occlusal traits in Plio-Pleistocene African suids	13
Geographic and temporal morphological stasis in the latest Cretaceous ammonoidDiscoscaphites irisfrom the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains	12
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	11
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	11
Exploring the impact of unstable terminals on branch support values in paleontological data	11
Interpretation of fossil embryos requires reasonable assessment of developmental age	10
Seasonal paleoecological records from antler collagen δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N	10
The geography of phylogenetic paleoecology: integrating data and methods to better understand biotic response to climate change	10
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	9
Linking host plants to damage types in the fossil record of insect herbivory – CORRIGENDUM	8
Spatial standardization of taxon occurrence data—a call to action	8
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	8
The Phanerozoic aftermath of the Cambrian information revolution: sensory and cognitive complexity in marine faunas	8
Is the hyoid a constraint on innovation? A study in convergence driving feeding in fish-shaped marine tetrapods	7

The paleobiologic implications of modern nonmarine ecological gradients	7
Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios support trophic partitioning within a Silurian conodont community from Gotland, Sweden	7
Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction – ADDENDUM	7
Repairing the scaffolding: women authors in Paleobiology	7
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	7
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	7
A biased fossil record can preserve reliable phylogenetic signal	6
The life and times of Pteridinium simplex	6
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	6
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	6
PAB volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	6
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	5
The impact of apicobasal ridges on dental load-bearing capacity in aquatic-feeding predatory amniotes	5
Absolute axial growth and trunk segmentation in the early Cambrian trilobite Oryctocarella duyunensis	5
The Fezouata Shale Formation biota is typical for the high latitudes of the Early Ordovician—a quantitative approach	5
Did shell-crushing predators drive the evolution of ammonoid septal shape?	5
Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change	5
A test of Bergmann's rule in the Early Triassic: latitude, body size, and sampling in Lystrosaurus	5
The structure of the nonmarine fossil record: predictions from a coupled stratigraphic–paleoecological model of a coastal basin	4
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	4
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	4
Exceptional multifunctionality in the feeding apparatus of a mid-Cambrian radiodont	4
Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape	4
A quantitative assessment of ontogeny and molting in a Cambrian radiodont and the evolution of arthropod development	4
Levels of selection and macroevolution in organisms, colonies, and species	4
Ultrastructural evidence shows adaptation to a pelagic lifestyle in Ordovician caryocaridids (Crustacea: phyllocarida)	4
The Fractional MacroEvolution Model: a simple quantitative scaling macroevolution model	4
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks—Corrigendum	4
Examining competition during the agnathan/gnathostome transition using distance-based morphometrics	4
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	3
The egg-thief architect: experimental oviraptorosaur nesting physiology, the possibility of adult-mediated incubation, and the feasibility of indirect contact incubation	3
Ediacara growing pains: modular addition and development in Dickinsonia costata	3
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	3
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	3
Ontogenetic mechanisms of size change: implications for the Lilliput effect and beyond	3
Scale dependence of drilling predation in the Holocene of the northern Adriatic Sea across benthic habitats and nutrient regimes	3
Species occurrences of Mio-Pliocene horses (Equidae) from Florida: sampling, ecology, or both?	3
Photosymbiosis in planktonic foraminifera across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	3
Sediment-encased pressure–temperature maturation experiments elucidate the impact of diagenesis on melanin-based fossil color and its paleobiological implications	3
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	3
Carbonate shelf development and early Paleozoic benthic diversity in Baltica: a hierarchical diversity partitioning approach using brachiopod data	3
Stratigraphic paleobiology	3
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	2
Turtle species extinction across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary	2
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	2
Ontogeny in the steinmanellines (Bivalvia: Trigoniida): an intra- and interspecific appraisal using the Early Cretaceous faunas from the Neuquén Basin as a case study	2
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	2
Fossilized pollen malformations as indicators of past environmental stress and meiotic disruption: insights from modern conifers	2

Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction	2
Geographic contingency, not species sorting, dominates macroevolutionary dynamics in an extinct clade of neogastropods (Volutospina; Volutidae)	2
PAB volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Frond orientations with independent current indicators demonstrate the reclining rheotropic mode of life of several Ediacaran rangeomorph taxa	2
Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians	2
Plant taxonomic turnover and diversity across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in northeastern Montana	2
PAB volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Linking host plants to damage types in the fossil record of insect herbivory	2
Fitting and evaluating univariate and multivariate models of within-lineage evolution	1
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	1
Morphological trends across the Norian/Rhaetian boundary within Late Triassic conodonts in western Canada: implications for protracted paleoenvironmental disturbance preceding the end-Triassic mass ex	1
PAB volume 50 issue 2 Cover	1
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	1
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks	1
Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	1
PAB volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	1
Combined paleohistological and isotopic inferences of thermometabolism in extinct Neosuchia, usingGoniopholisandDyrosaurus(Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) as case studies	1
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	1
Phylogenetic paleoecology: macroecology within an evolutionary framework	1
Convergent evolution of spherical shells in Miocene planktonic foraminifera documents the parallel emergence of a complex character in response to environmental forcing	1
Bioturbation increases time averaging despite promoting shell disintegration: a test using anthropogenic gradients in sediment accumulation and burrowing on the southern California shelf	1
The incubatory chamber of marsupial carditids (Bivalvia: Carditidae: Thecaliinae) as an exaptation	1
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	1
James Valentine (20 November 1926–7 April 2023), co-founder of Paleobiology and master of idiographically informed nomothetism	1
Sorting of persistent morphological polymorphisms links paleobiological pattern to population process	1
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	1
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	1
An abundance- and morphology-based similarity index	1
Dispersals from the West Tethys as the source of the Indo-West Pacific diversity hotspot in comatulid crinoids	1
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology	1
Environmental correlates of molluscan predator–prey body size in the northern Gulf of Mexico	1
Estimating spatial variation in origination and extinction in deep time: a case study using the Permian–Triassic marine invertebrate fossil record	1
Oxygen isotope composition of teeth suggests endothermy and possible migration in some Late Cretaceous shark taxa from the Gulf Coastal Plain, USA	1