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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How to build a dinosaur: Musculoskeletal modeling and simulation of locomotor biomechanics in extinct animals	67
Cretaceous–Paleogene plant extinction and recovery in Patagonia	26
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	24
Toward an understanding of cosmopolitanism in deep time: a case study of ammonoids from the middle Permian to the Middle Triassic	20
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks	19
Exceptional multifunctionality in the feeding apparatus of a mid-Cambrian radiodont	17
Macroevolutionary patterns of body plan canalization in euarthropods	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
Evolvability in the fossil record	16
Seven rules for simulations in paleobiology	15
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	15
Relationships of mass properties and body proportions to locomotor habit in terrestrial Archosauria	15
Disentangling ecological and taphonomic signals in ancient food webs	14
Size variations in foraminifers from the early Permian to the Late Triassic: implications for the Guadalupian–Lopingian and the Permian–Triassic mass extinctions	14
Machine learning identifies ecological selectivity patterns across the end-Permian mass extinction	14
Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction	13
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	12
The rise to dominance of lanternfishes (Teleostei: Myctophidae) in the oceanic ecosystems: a paleontological perspective	12
Fossilized pollen malformations as indicators of past environmental stress and meiotic disruption: insights from modern conifers	11
Principal component analysis of avian hind limb and foot morphometrics and the relationship between ecology and phylogeny	11
Testing size–frequency distributions as a method of ontogenetic aging: a life-history assessment of hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, with implications for had	11
The effects of geographic range size and abundance on extinction during a time of “sluggish”’ evolution	10
Verifiability of genus-level classification under quantification and parsimony theories: a case study of follicucullid radiolarians	10
Photosymbiosis in planktonic foraminifera across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	10

Fossil bivalves and the sclerochronological reawakening	10
The structure of the nonmarine fossil record: predictions from a coupled stratigraphic–paleoecological model of a coastal basin	9
Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America	8
Paleohistological inferences of thermometabolic regimes in Notosuchia (Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) revisited	8
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	8
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	8
Accounting for uncertainty from zero inflation and overdispersion in paleoecological studies of predation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework	7
Selecting and averaging relaxed clock models in Bayesian tip dating of Mesozoic birds	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
Phylogenetic and ecomorphologic diversifications of spiriferinid brachiopods after the end-Permian extinction	7
Combined paleohistological and isotopic inferences of thermometabolism in extinct Neosuchia, usingGoniopholisandDyrosaurus(Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) as case studies	7
Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios support trophic partitioning within a Silurian conodont community from Gotland, Sweden	7
The geography of phylogenetic paleoecology: integrating data and methods to better understand biotic response to climate change	7
Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	7
Ediacara growing pains: modular addition and development in Dickinsonia costata	7
Absolute axial growth and trunk segmentation in the early Cambrian trilobite Oryctocarella duyunensis	7
Evidence that more than a third of Paleozoic articulate brachiopod genera (Strophomenata) lived infaunally	6
Spatial scaling of beta diversity in the shallow-marine fossil record	6
Did shell-crushing predators drive the evolution of ammonoid septal shape?	6
Challenges and directions in analytical paleobiology	6
Do paleontologists dream of electric dinosaurs? Investigating the presumed inefficiency of dinosaurs contact incubating partially buried eggs	6
Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	6
Estimating spatial variation in origination and extinction in deep time: a case study using the Permian–Triassic marine invertebrate fossil record	6
Going round the twist—an empirical analysis of shell coiling in helicospiral gastropods	5
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	5
Hearing from the ocean and into the river: the evolution of the inner ear of Platanistoidea (Cetacea: Odontoceti)	5
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	5
The life and times of Pteridinium simplex	5
Does evolutionary relatedness predict ecological similarity?	5
The role of bioturbation-driven substrate disturbance in the Mesozoic brachiopod decline	5
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	4
Phylogenetic paleoecology: macroecology within an evolutionary framework	4
Convergence, parallelism, and function of extreme parietal callus in diverse groups of Cenozoic Gastropoda	4
Exploring the impact of unstable terminals on branch support values in paleontological data	4
Bedrock geological map predictions for Phanerozoic fossil occurrences	4
Fitting and evaluating univariate and multivariate models of within-lineage evolution	4
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	4
A biased fossil record can preserve reliable phylogenetic signal	4
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	4
A downcore increase in time averaging is the null expectation from the transit of death assemblages through a mixed layer	4
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	4
Frond orientations with independent current indicators demonstrate the reclining rheotropic mode of life of several Ediacaran rangeomorph taxa	4
Permian–Triassic phylogenetic and morphologic evolution of rhynchonellide brachiopods	4
Relatedness and the composition of communities over time: Evaluating phylogenetic community structure in the late Cenozoic record of bivalves	4
Linking host plants to damage types in the fossil record of insect herbivory	3
The Phanerozoic aftermath of the Cambrian information revolution: sensory and cognitive complexity in marine faunas	3
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	3
Morphometric analysis ofSkiagia-plexus acritarchs from the early Cambrian of North Greenland: toward a meaningful evaluation of phenotypic plasticity	3
Patterns and processes in the history of body size in turritelline gastropods, Jurassic to Recent	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
Seasonal paleoecological records from antler collagen δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N	3
The Pull of the Recent revisited: negligible species-level effect in a regional marine fossil record	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
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	3
A quantitative assessment of ontogeny and molting in a Cambrian radiodont and the evolution of arthropod development	3
Why the long teeth? Morphometric analysis suggests different selective pressures on functional occlusal traits in Plio-Pleistocene African suids	3
Frog limbs in deep time: is jumping locomotion at the roots of the anuran Bauplan?	3
Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates	3
Anomalous ¹³C enrichment in Mesozoic vertebrate enamel reflects environmental conditions in a “vanished world” and not a unique dietary physiology	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
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	2
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	2
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	2
Controls on range shifts of coastal Californian bivalves during the peak of the last interglacial and baseline predictions for today	2
Insights for modern invasion ecology from biotic changes of the Clarksville Phase of the Richmondian Invasion (Ordovician, Katian)	2
Analysis of the juvenile shell ofLingula anatina(Brachiopoda: Linguliformea) provides insight into the evolution of life cycles of fossil brachiopods	2
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	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
Dietary and body-mass reconstruction of the Miocene neotropical batNotonycteris magdalenensis(Phyllostomidae) from La Venta, Colombia	2
Size and shape variation in the calcareous nannoplankton genusBraarudosphaerafollowing the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction: clues as to its evolutionary success	2
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	2
Spatial standardization of taxon occurrence data—a call to action	2
Convergent evolution of spherical shells in Miocene planktonic foraminifera documents the parallel emergence of a complex character in response to environmental forcing	2