OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	25
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks	20
Exceptional multifunctionality in the feeding apparatus of a mid-Cambrian radiodont	20
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	17
Evolvability in the fossil record	16
Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape	16
Evolution, diversity, and disparity of the tiger shark lineageGaleocerdoin deep time	16
The rise to dominance of lanternfishes (Teleostei: Myctophidae) in the oceanic ecosystems: a paleontological perspective	15
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	14
Machine learning identifies ecological selectivity patterns across the end-Permian mass extinction	14
Disentangling ecological and taphonomic signals in ancient food webs	14
Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction	13
Fossil bivalves and the sclerochronological reawakening	11
Photosymbiosis in planktonic foraminifera across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	11
The effects of geographic range size and abundance on extinction during a time of “sluggish”’ evolution	10
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	10
Fossilized pollen malformations as indicators of past environmental stress and meiotic disruption: insights from modern conifers	10
The structure of the nonmarine fossil record: predictions from a coupled stratigraphic–paleoecological model of a coastal basin	10
Paleohistological inferences of thermometabolic regimes in Notosuchia (Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) revisited	9
Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America	9
Challenges and directions in analytical paleobiology	8
Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	8
Accounting for uncertainty from zero inflation and overdispersion in paleoecological studies of predation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework	8
Selecting and averaging relaxed clock models in Bayesian tip dating of Mesozoic birds	8
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	8

Combined paleohistological and isotopic inferences of thermometabolism in extinct Neosuchia, usingGoniopholisandDyrosaurus(Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) as case studies	8
Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	7
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	7
Is the hyoid a constraint on innovation? A study in convergence driving feeding in fish-shaped marine tetrapods	7
Ediacara growing pains: modular addition and development in Dickinsonia costata	7
Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios support trophic partitioning within a Silurian conodont community from Gotland, Sweden	7
Absolute axial growth and trunk segmentation in the early Cambrian trilobite Oryctocarella duyunensis	7
The geography of phylogenetic paleoecology: integrating data and methods to better understand biotic response to climate change	7
Fitting and evaluating univariate and multivariate models of within-lineage evolution	6
The life and times of Pteridinium simplex	6
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	6
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	6
Estimating spatial variation in origination and extinction in deep time: a case study using the Permian–Triassic marine invertebrate fossil record	6
Did shell-crushing predators drive the evolution of ammonoid septal shape?	6
Bedrock geological map predictions for Phanerozoic fossil occurrences	5
Does evolutionary relatedness predict ecological similarity?	5
The role of bioturbation-driven substrate disturbance in the Mesozoic brachiopod decline	5
Going round the twist—an empirical analysis of shell coiling in helicospiral gastropods	5
Frond orientations with independent current indicators demonstrate the reclining rheotropic mode of life of several Ediacaran rangeomorph taxa	5
Hearing from the ocean and into the river: the evolution of the inner ear of Platanistoidea (Cetacea: Odontoceti)	5
Phylogenetic paleoecology: macroecology within an evolutionary framework	5
A biased fossil record can preserve reliable phylogenetic signal	5
Morphometric analysis ofSkiagia-plexus acritarchs from the early Cambrian of North Greenland: toward a meaningful evaluation of phenotypic plasticity	4
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	4
A quantitative assessment of ontogeny and molting in a Cambrian radiodont and the evolution of arthropod development	4
Exploring the impact of unstable terminals on branch support values in paleontological data	4
A downcore increase in time averaging is the null expectation from the transit of death assemblages through a mixed layer	4
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	4
Spatial standardization of taxon occurrence data—a call to action	4
Why the long teeth? Morphometric analysis suggests different selective pressures on functional occlusal traits in Plio-Pleistocene African suids	4
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	4
Linking host plants to damage types in the fossil record of insect herbivory	4
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	4
Permian–Triassic phylogenetic and morphologic evolution of rhynchonellide brachiopods	4
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	3
The Phanerozoic aftermath of the Cambrian information revolution: sensory and cognitive complexity in marine faunas	3
Transgression–regression cycles drive correlations in Ediacaran–Cambrian rock and fossil records	3
Size and shape variation in the calcareous nannoplankton genusBraarudosphaerafollowing the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction: clues as to its evolutionary success	3
Patterns and processes in the history of body size in turritelline gastropods, Jurassic to Recent	3
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	3
Seasonal paleoecological records from antler collagen δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N	3
Frog limbs in deep time: is jumping locomotion at the roots of the anuran Bauplan?	3
Quantifying shell outline variability in extant and fossilLaqueus(Brachiopoda: Terebratulida): are outlines good proxies for long-looped brachidial morphology and can they help us characterize	3
Reassessing growth and mortality estimates for the Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus eatoni	3
Carbonate shelf development and early Paleozoic benthic diversity in Baltica: a hierarchical diversity partitioning approach using brachiopod data	3
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	3
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	3
Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates	3
Controls on range shifts of coastal Californian bivalves during the peak of the last interglacial and baseline predictions for today	2
Dietary and body-mass reconstruction of the Miocene neotropical batNotonycteris magdalenensis(Phyllostomidae) from La Venta, Colombia	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
Analysis of the juvenile shell ofLingula anatina(Brachiopoda: Linguliformea) provides insight into the evolution of life cycles of fossil brachiopods	2
Geographic contingency, not species sorting, dominates macroevolutionary dynamics in an extinct clade of neogastropods (Volutospina; Volutidae)	2
Morphological conservatism of the family Naticidae (Gastropoda) through time: potential causes and consequences	2
Anomalous ¹³C enrichment in Mesozoic vertebrate enamel reflects environmental conditions in a “vanished world” and not a unique dietary physiology	2
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	2
Convergent evolution of spherical shells in Miocene planktonic foraminifera documents the parallel emergence of a complex character in response to environmental forcing	2
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	2
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	2
Insights for modern invasion ecology from biotic changes of the Clarksville Phase of the Richmondian Invasion (Ordovician, Katian)	2
Dispersals from the West Tethys as the source of the Indo-West Pacific diversity hotspot in comatulid crinoids	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
Scale dependence of drilling predation in the Holocene of the northern Adriatic Sea across benthic habitats and nutrient regimes	2
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	2