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Papers

(The median citation count of Paleobiology is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	38
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	27
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	26
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	20
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States	18
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	17
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	17
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	16
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	15
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	15
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	15
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	15
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	14
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	14
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	13
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	13
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	13
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales	12
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	11
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	11
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	10
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	9
Paleodiet of Lamini camelids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil: insights from stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O)	9
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	9

Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	9
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	9
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	9
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	8
Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms	8
Larval brooding correlated with high early origination rates in cheilostome Bryozoa	8
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	8
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	8
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	8
Drilling predation on Early Jurassic bivalves and behavioral patterns of the presumed gastropod predator—evidence from Pliensbachian soft-bottom deposits of northern Germany	8
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	8
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM	7
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	7
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	7
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	6
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	6
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	6
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	6
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Early eukaryote diversity: a review and a reinterpretation	5
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	5
Ontogenetic mechanisms of size change: implications for the Lilliput effect and beyond	5
Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians	5
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	5
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	5
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	5
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	5
PAB volume 50 issue 2 Cover	4
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	4
Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America	4
Selecting and averaging relaxed clock models in Bayesian tip dating of Mesozoic birds	4
PAB volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Growth of the enigmatic Ediacaran Parvancorina minchami	4
PAB volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Terrestrialization: toward a shared framework for ecosystem evolution	4
An abundance- and morphology-based similarity index	4
Mass extinctions and their rebounds: a macroevolutionary framework	4
Evolvability in the fossil record	4
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics	3
Ultrastructural evidence shows adaptation to a pelagic lifestyle in Ordovician caryocaridids (Crustacea: phyllocarida)	3
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks—Corrigendum	3
Diversification dynamics of vegetation during the Cenozoic in the Neotropics: a palynological perspective from Colombia	3
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	3
The paleobiologic implications of modern nonmarine ecological gradients	3
Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change	3
Sediment-encased pressure–temperature maturation experiments elucidate the impact of diagenesis on melanin-based fossil color and its paleobiological implications	3
Data equity in paleobiology: progress, challenges, and future outlook	3
Reassessment of body temperature and thermoregulation strategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles	3
Death on “live broadcast”—fish mortichnia from the Upper Cretaceous plattenkalk of Lebanon	3

Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	3
PAB volume 51 issue 1 Cover	3
Reevaluating climate change responses in Rancho La Brea birds and mammals: new dates and new data	3
Stratigraphic paleobiology	3
Permian–Triassic phylogenetic and morphologic evolution of rhynchonellide brachiopods	2
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	2
Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates	2
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	2
Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future	2
Morphometric analysis of the Late CretaceousPlacenticerasof Alabama, USA: sexual dimorphism, allometry, and implications for taxonomy	2
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction	2
Punctuated equilibrium: state of the evidence	2
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	2
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	2
Reassessing growth and mortality estimates for the Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus eatoni	2
Anomalous ¹³C enrichment in Mesozoic vertebrate enamel reflects environmental conditions in a “vanished world” and not a unique dietary physiology	2
Which morphological traits can be used to reconstruct genome size in fossil plants? Assessing sporomorph size and stomatal guard cell length as paleo-genome size proxies	2
Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	2
Environmental correlates of molluscan predator–prey body size in the northern Gulf of Mexico	2
PAB volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis	2
James Valentine (20 November 1926–7 April 2023), co-founder of Paleobiology and master of idiographically informed nomothetism	2
Accounting for uncertainty from zero inflation and overdispersion in paleoecological studies of predation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework	2