OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology is 4. 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
African Land Mammal Ages	31
Morphology and taxonomy ofQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)	24
The Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur ‘Morosaurus’ agilisMarsh, 1889 reexamined and reinterpreted as a dicraeosaurid	19
Panzhousaurus rotundirostris Jiang et al., 2019 (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) and the recovery of the monophyly of Pachypleurosauridae	17
Phylogenetic systematics ofQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea:Azhdarchoidea)	17
The braincase and inner ear of ‘Metriorhynchus’ cf. ‘M.’ brachyrhynchus – implications for aquatic sensory adaptations in crocodylomorphs	16
A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid from La Invernada (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian, Bajo De La Carpa Formation), Northern Patagonia, Argentina	14
Late Pleistocene Mammals from Kibogo, Kenya: Systematic Paleontology, Paleoenvironments, and Non-Analog Associations	14
A redescription ofKunpania scopulusa, a bidentalian dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the ?Guadalupian of northwestern China	13
A Basal Nonmammaliaform Cynodont from the Permian of Zambia and the Origins of Mammalian Endocranial and Postcranial Anatomy	12
New early late Miocene species of Vishnuonyx (Carnivora, Lutrinae) from the hominid locality of Hammerschmiede, Bavaria, Germany	11
Two exceptionally preserved juvenile specimens of Gorgosaurus libratus (Tyrannosauridae, Albertosaurinae) provide new insight into the timing of ontogenetic changes in tyrannosaurids	11
A new species of crested pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) of Richmond, North West Queensland, Australia	11
Cyonasua(Carnivora, Procyonidae) from Late Miocene of Peru Shed Light on the Early Dispersal of Carnivorans in South America	10
From toad to frog, a CT-based reconsideration ofBufo servatus, an Eocene anuran mummy from Quercy (France)	10
Functional morphology ofQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)	10
Insights on the Dental Evolution of Walruses Based on New Fossil Specimens from California	10
The osteology of Ferrodraco lentoni, an anhanguerid pterosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia	10
Nomenclature, comparative anatomy, and evolution of the reflected lamina of the angular in non-mammalian synapsids	9
Systematics and paleobiology of a new articulated axial specimen referred to Iguanodon cf. galvensis (Ornithopoda, Iguanodontoidea)	9
Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod dinosaurHudiesaurus sinojapanorumDong, 1997, from the Turpan Basin, China, and the evolution of hyper-robust antebrachia in sauropods	9
Phylogenetic placement of Adalatherium hui (Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar: implications for allotherian relationships	9
First definitive abelisaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Northwestern Argentina	9
NewLeptolophus(Palaeotheriidae) species from the Iberian Peninsula and early evidence of hypsodonty in an Eocene perissodactyl	8
A revision of skull morphology in Phorusrhacidae (Aves, Cariamiformes)	8

A new beardfish (Teleostei, Polymixiiformes) from the Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark	8
The first braincase of the basal aetosaur Aetosauroides scagliai (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic of Brazil	8
First record of a giant bird (Ornithuromorpha) from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Southern Pyrenees, northeast Spain	8
How many sabertooths? Reevaluating the number of carnivoran sabretooth lineages with total-evidence Bayesian techniques and a novel origin of the Miocene Nimravidae	8
A new early diverging thalattosuchian (Crocodylomorpha) from the Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Dorset, U.K. and implications for the origin and evolution of the group	8
A giant Oligocene fossil penguin from the North Island of New Zealand	8
A new hypothesis of eudromaeosaurian evolution: CT scans assist in testing and constructing morphological characters	8
Cranial Anatomy and Dentition of the Aetosaur Typothorax Coccinarum (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic (Revueltian–Mid Norian) Chinle Formation of Arizona	7
Youngest Interatheriinae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from lower Pliocene Tunuyán Formation (Mendoza, Argentina)	7
Triassic nursery? Evidence of gregarious behavior in juvenile pseudosuchian archosaurs as inferred by humeral histology of Aetosaurus ferratus (Norian; southern Germany)	7
Postcranial osteology of the basally branching hadrosauroid dinosaur Tanius sinensis from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China	7
A new plastomenid trionychid turtle, Plastomenus joycei , sp. nov., from the earliest Paleocene (Danian) Denver Formation of south-central Colorado, U.S.A.	7
Brazilian Permian dvinosaurs (Amphibia, Temnospondyli): revised description and phylogeny	7
Anatomy and phylogeny of an exceptionally large sebecid (Crocodylomorpha) from the middle Eocene of southern France	6
First Pleistocene South American Teratornithidae (Aves): new insights into the late evolutionary history of teratorns	6
Diverse assemblage of Middle Triassic continental tetrapods from the Newark Supergroup of Nova Scotia (Canada)	6
The fossil record of the ocelotLeopardus pardalis(Carnivora, Felidae): a new record from the southern range of its distribution and its paleoenvironmental context	6
New stegosaurs from the Middle Jurassic Lower Member of the Shaximiao Formation of Chongqing, China	6
A new sebecid mesoeucrocodylian from the Paleocene of northwestern Argentina	6
Fossil evidence for earlier radiation in istiophorid billfishes (Teleostei, Istiophoriformes) uncovered by comparative morphology of the caudal vertebrae	6
Ornithopod jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia, and their implications for polar neornithischian dinosaur diversity	6
The cranial anatomy of the long-snouted tyrannosaurid dinosaur Qianzhousaurus sinensis from the Upper Cretaceous of China	6
Phylogenetic relationships of the European trilophosaurids Tricuspisaurus thomasi and Variodens inopinatus	6
An Upper Triassic terrestrial vertebrate assemblage from the forgotten Kocury locality (Poland) with a new aetosaur taxon	6
Archosauriform remains from the Lower Triassic Sanga do Cabral Formation of Brazil	6
A new baenid turtle, Palatobaena knellerorum sp. nov., from the lower Paleocene (Danian) Denver Formation of south-central Colorado, U.S.A.	6
A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny	6
Osteohistology and paleobiological inferences of proterochampsids (Eucrocopoda: Proterochampsia) from the Chañares Formation (late Ladinian–early Carnian), La Rioja, Argentina	6
Aragonictis araid, gen. et sp. nov., a small-sized hypercarnivore (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the upper middle Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain)	6
First Osteological Record of a Stegosaur (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic of South America	6
Taxonomic overview of Neogene crocodylians in Myanmar	6
A Partially Complete Skeleton of Hippidion Saldiasi Roth, 1899 (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from the Late Pleistocene of the High Andes in Northern Chile	5
Catutosaurus gaspariniae , gen. et sp. nov. (Ichthyosauria, Thunnosauria) of the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and the evolution of the ophthalmosaurids	5
Osteology and digital reconstruction of the skull of the early tetrapod Whatcheeria deltae	5
A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt	5
A new ornithuromorph bird from the Lower Cretaceous of South America	5
A fossil sea turtle (Reptilia, Pan-Cheloniidae) with preserved soft tissues from the Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark	5
The earliest recorded fossil pelican, recovered from the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt	5
A new ektopodontid possum (Diprotodontia, Ektopodontidae) from the Oligocene of central Australia, and its implications for phalangeroid interrelationships	5
Generalist diet of Microraptor zhaoianus included mammals	5
Anguimorph lizards from the lower Eocene (MP 10–11) of the Cos locality, Phosphorites du Quercy, France, and the early evolution of Glyptosaurinae in Europe	5
A new lizard-like reptile from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of Virginia and the Triassic record of Lepidosauromorpha (Diapsida, Sauria)	5
Fossil frogs from the upper Miocene of southwestern Brazilian Amazonia (Solimões Formation, Acre Basin).	5
New late Oligocene caviomorph rodents from Mendoza Province, central-western Argentina	5
The ontogenetic growth of Anhangueridae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) premaxillary crests as revealed by a crestless Anhanguera specimen	5
The osteology of Shringasaurus indicus, an archosauromorph from the Middle Triassic Denwa Formation, Satpura Gondwana Basin, Central India	5
A newTriodusshark species (Xenacanthidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lowermost Permian of France and its paleobiogeographic implications	5
A new large gomphodont from the Triassic of South Africa and its implications for Gondwanan biostratigraphy	5
The discovery, local distribution, and curation of the giant azhdarchid pterosaurs from Big Bend National Park	5
First record of the amphibamiform Micropholis stowi from the lower Fremouw Formation (Lower Triassic) of Antarctica	5

Cranial anatomy of Nythosaurus larvatus Owen, 1876, an Early Triassic cynodont preserving a natural endocast	5
On the alleged perissodactyl affinities of the “condylarth”Escribania chubutensisand other endemic South American ungulate-like placentals	5
Modeling scale morphogenesis in a Devonian chondrichthyan and scale growth patterns in crown gnathostomes	5
A new cranial reconstruction ofCoelurosauravus elivensisPiveteau, 1926 (Diapsida, Weigeltisauridae) and its implications on the paleoecology of the first gliding vertebrates	5
Habitat of the giant pterosaurQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea): a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Javelina Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Big Bend National Pa	5
Geologically Oldest Pediomyoidea (Mammalia, Marsupialiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of North America, with Implications for Taxonomy and Diet of Earliest Late Cretaceous Mammals	5
Craniofacial morphology ofAdalatherium hui(Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar	4
First record of mawsoniid coelacanths (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the marine Rhaetian (Upper Triassic) of Bonenburg, Germany	4
Allometric analysis sheds light on the systematics and ontogeny of anurognathid pterosaurs	4
A new genus of Interatheriinae (Interatheriidae, Notoungulata) from the Santa Cruz Formation (early–middle Miocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, and the revision of the genus Cochilius Ameg	4
The youngest pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota) from Europe	4
Tooth replacement in the non-mammalian cynodont Cynosaurus suppostus (Therapsida) from the late Permian of South Africa	4
The postcranial skeleton of the gliding reptileCoelurosauravus elivensisPiveteau, 1926 (Diapsida, Weigeltisauridae) from the late Permian of Madagascar	4
Anatomy and phylogenetic affinities of a new silesaurid assemblage from the Carnian beds of south Brazil	4
A new Toxodontidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the upper Pliocene–lower Pleistocene of Uruguay	4
Intraspecific variation in molar topography of the early Eocene stem primateMicrosyops latidens(Mammalia, ?Primates)	4
The extinct shark, Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) in the Upper Cretaceous of central-western Russia—The road to easternmost peri-Tethyan seas	4
A Comprehensive Review of the Morphological Diversity of the Quadrate Bone in Mosasauroids (Squamata: Mosasauroidea), with Comments on the Homology of the Infrastapedial Process	4
Inner ear morphology of Adalatherium hui (Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar	4
Cold capitosaurs and polar plagiosaurs: new temnospondyl records from the upper Fremouw Formation (Middle Triassic) of Antarctica	4
The stapes of stem and extinct Marsupialia: implications for the ancestral condition	4
Oligocene basking sharks (Lamniformes, Cetorhinidae) of the Carpathian Basin with a reconsideration of the role of gill rakers in species diagnostics	4
Iguanian lizards (Acrodonta and Pleurodonta) from the earliest Eocene (MP 7) of Dormaal, Belgium: the first stages of these iconic reptiles in Europe	4
A new old Budgett frog: an articulated skeleton of an Early Pliocene Lepidobatrachus (Anura, Ceratophryidae) from western Argentina	4
New species ofYuomys(Rodentia, Ctenodactyloidea) from the upper Eocene of eastern Ningxia, China	4
Quantifying vascularity in the frontoparietal dome ofStegoceras validum(Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae) from high resolution CT scans	4
Paleobiology of Jefferson’s Ground Sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) derived from three contemporaneous, ontogenetically distinct individuals recovered from Southwestern Iowa, U.S.A.	4
Exploring possible ontogenetic trajectories in tyrannosaurids using tracks from the Wapiti Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada	4
Herpetofaunal diversity changes with climate: evidence from the Quaternary of McEachern’s Deathtrap Cave, southeastern Australia	4
New material of Dicynodon angielczyki (Synapsida: Anomodontia) from Mozambique and Zambia with biostratigraphic implications for African Permo-Triassic basins	4
New remains ofLophiaspis maurettei(Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the early Eocene of France and the implications for the origin of the Lophiodontidae	4
Lower jaw morphology ofAdalatherium hui(Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar	4
Giant Late Triassic ichthyosaurs from the Kössen Formation of the Swiss Alps and their paleobiological implications	4
A new proterotheriid (Mammalia, Litopterna) from the Salla Beds of Bolivia (upper Oligocene): phylogeny and litoptern patellar pit knee locks	4
New information on the dissorophidConjunctio(Temnospondyli) based on a specimen from the Cutler Formation of Colorado, U.S.A	4
The oldest occurrence of Crocodylus in Madagascar and the Holocene crocodylian turnover	4
A Transitional Mammalian Carnivore Community from the Paleogene–Neogene Boundary in Northern Kenya	4