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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	35
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	23
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	23
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	22
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	20
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	17
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	17
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	16
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	16
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	15
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	14
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	14
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	13
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	13
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	13
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	12
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	12
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	12
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	11
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	10
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	9
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	9
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	9
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	9
Drilling predation on Early Jurassic bivalves and behavioral patterns of the presumed gastropod predator—evidence from Pliensbachian soft-bottom deposits of northern Germany	8

PAB volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	8
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	8
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths	8
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	7
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	7
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	7
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	7
Paleodiet of Lamini camelids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil: insights from stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O)	7
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	7
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	7
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	6
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	6
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	6
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	6
PAB volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	6
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	5
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	5
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	5
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	5
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Ontogenetic mechanisms of size change: implications for the Lilliput effect and beyond	4
Early eukaryote diversity: a review and a reinterpretation	4
PAB volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Terrestrialization: toward a shared framework for ecosystem evolution	4
Carbonate shelf development and early Paleozoic benthic diversity in Baltica: a hierarchical diversity partitioning approach using brachiopod data	4
Exceptional multifunctionality in the feeding apparatus of a mid-Cambrian radiodont	4
An abundance- and morphology-based similarity index	4
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	4
Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians	4
PAB volume 50 issue 2 Cover	4
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	4
Selecting and averaging relaxed clock models in Bayesian tip dating of Mesozoic birds	3
Mass extinctions and their rebounds: a macroevolutionary framework	3
The paleobiologic implications of modern nonmarine ecological gradients	3
Growth of the enigmatic Ediacaran Parvancorina minchami	3
Evolvability in the fossil record	3
PAB volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America	3
Death on “live broadcast”—fish mortichnia from the Upper Cretaceous plattenkalk of Lebanon	3
Reevaluating climate change responses in Rancho La Brea birds and mammals: new dates and new data	2
Data equity in paleobiology: progress, challenges, and future outlook	2
Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	2
Ultrastructural evidence shows adaptation to a pelagic lifestyle in Ordovician caryocaridids (Crustacea: phyllocarida)	2
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	2
Stratigraphic paleobiology	2
Diversification dynamics of vegetation during the Cenozoic in the Neotropics: a palynological perspective from Colombia	2
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics	2
Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change	2
Sediment-encased pressure–temperature maturation experiments elucidate the impact of diagenesis on melanin-based fossil color and its paleobiological implications	2

Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	2
PAB volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Reassessment of body temperature and thermoregulation strategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles	2
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks—Corrigendum	2
PAB volume 51 issue 1 Cover	2
The Fezouata Shale Formation biota is typical for the high latitudes of the Early Ordovician—a quantitative approach	1
The impact of apicobasal ridges on dental load-bearing capacity in aquatic-feeding predatory amniotes	1
Permian–Triassic phylogenetic and morphologic evolution of rhynchonellide brachiopods	1
James Valentine (20 November 1926–7 April 2023), co-founder of Paleobiology and master of idiographically informed nomothetism	1
On the basis of stasis: documentation of taxon durations in paleontology and the necessity of museum voucher specimens	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
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	1
Morphometric analysis of the Late CretaceousPlacenticerasof Alabama, USA: sexual dimorphism, allometry, and implications for taxonomy	1
Scale dependence of drilling predation in the Holocene of the northern Adriatic Sea across benthic habitats and nutrient regimes	1
Repairing the scaffolding: women authors in Paleobiology	1
Accounting for uncertainty from zero inflation and overdispersion in paleoecological studies of predation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework	1
Death on “live broadcast”—fish mortichnia from the Upper Cretaceous plattenkalk of Lebanon– CORRIGENDUM	1
Reassessing growth and mortality estimates for the Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus eatoni	1
Introduction: Fifty years of Paleobiology	1
Environmental correlates of molluscan predator–prey body size in the northern Gulf of Mexico	1
Anomalous ¹³C enrichment in Mesozoic vertebrate enamel reflects environmental conditions in a “vanished world” and not a unique dietary physiology	1
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction	1
Linking host plants to damage types in the fossil record of insect herbivory	1
A quantitative assessment of ontogeny and molting in a Cambrian radiodont and the evolution of arthropod development	1
Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future	1
The Phanerozoic aftermath of the Cambrian information revolution: sensory and cognitive complexity in marine faunas	1
Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates	1
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	1
Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	1
Why the long teeth? Morphometric analysis suggests different selective pressures on functional occlusal traits in Plio-Pleistocene African suids	1