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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
African Land Mammal Ages	25
Morphology and taxonomy ofQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)	16
Panzhousaurus rotundirostris Jiang et al., 2019 (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) and the recovery of the monophyly of Pachypleurosauridae	15
Hitchcock’s Leptodactyli, Penetrative Tracks, and Dinosaur Footprint Diversity	15
Osteology of the Wide-Hipped Titanosaurian Sauropod DinosaurSavannasaurus Elliottorumfrom the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia	14
Elasmosaurid phylogeny and paleobiogeography, with a reappraisal of Aphrosaurus furlongi from the Maastrichtian of the Moreno Formation	14
The Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur ‘Morosaurus’ agilisMarsh, 1889 reexamined and reinterpreted as a dicraeosaurid	14
A systematic review of the giant alligatoroidDeinosuchusfrom the Campanian of North America and its implications for the relationships at the root of Crocodylia	14
Postcranial anatomy and osteoderm histology of Riojasuchus tenuisceps and a phylogenetic update on Ornithosuchidae (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia)	13
New Fossils ofMellivora Benfieldi(Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg, ‘E’ Quarry (South Africa, Early Pliocene): Re-Evaluation of the African Neogene Mellivorines	12
Scaphokogia totajpe, sp. nov., a new bulky-faced pygmy sperm whale (Kogiidae) from the late Miocene of Peru	12
Phylogenetic systematics ofQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea:Azhdarchoidea)	11
The Westernmost Asian Record of Pythonids (Serpentes): The Presence of Python in a Miocene Hominoid Locality of Anatolia	11
The braincase and inner ear of ‘Metriorhynchus’ cf. ‘M.’ brachyrhynchus – implications for aquatic sensory adaptations in crocodylomorphs	11
The Appendicular Osteology ofPatagotitan Mayorum(Dinosauria, Sauropoda)	11
A Detailed description of Rugarhynchos sixmilensis, gen. et comb. nov. (Archosauriformes, Proterochampsia), and cranial convergence in snout elongation across stem and crown archosaurs	10
Late Pleistocene Mammals from Kibogo, Kenya: Systematic Paleontology, Paleoenvironments, and Non-Analog Associations	10
Taoheodon baizhijuni, gen. et sp. nov. (Anomodontia, Dicynodontoidea), from the upper Permian Sunjiagou Formation of China and its implications	10
A redescription of Kunpania scopulusa, a bidentalian dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the ?Guadalupian of northwestern China	9
A New Ladinian Nothosauroid (Sauropterygia) from Fuyuan, Yunnan Province, China	9
An oviraptorosaur adult-egg association from the Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, China	9
A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid from La Invernada (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian, Bajo De La Carpa Formation), Northern Patagonia, Argentina	9
Skeleton of a new owl from the early Eocene of North America (Aves, Strigiformes) with an accipitrid-like foot morphology	9
Anatomy of a New Specimen of Piscivorenantiornis Inusitatus (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Biota	9
Osteological redescription of the Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaur Thecodontosaurus antiquus based on new material from Tytherington, southwestern England	8

An Enigmatic Neodiapsid Reptile from the Middle Triassic of England	8
Skeletal Anatomy ofAcaenasuchus GeoffreyiLong and Murry, 1995 (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its Implications for the Origin of the Aetosaurian Carapace	8
A European Cenozoic ‘Macrobaenid:’ New Data about the Paleocene Arrival of Several Turtle Lineages to Europe	8
Using Manual Ungual Morphology to Predict Substrate Use in the Drepanosauromorpha and the Description of a New Species	8
Late Miocene tortoises from Samos, Greece: implications for European Neogene testudinid systematics and distributions	8
To be or not to be: The Hidden Side ofCargninia Enigmaticaand Other Puzzling Remains of Lepidosauromorpha from the Upper Triassic of Brazil	8
NewLeptolophus(Palaeotheriidae) species from the Iberian Peninsula and early evidence of hypsodonty in an Eocene perissodactyl	7
New Specimens ofScutellosaurus LawleriColbert, 1981, from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in Arizona Elucidate the Early Evolution of Thyreophoran Dinosaurs	7
A New Rhynchosaur (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Eastern North America	7
The auditory region of a caviomorph rodent (Hystricognathi) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (South America) and evolutionary considerations	7
New insights into the Kibenikhoria and Ernestokokenia faunas and the implications for the early Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina	7
Paddlefish and sturgeon (Chondrostei: Acipenseriformes: Polyodontidae and Acipenseridae) from lower Paleocene deposits of Montana, U.S.A.	7
Insights on the Dental Evolution of Walruses Based on New Fossil Specimens from California	7
Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum, gen. et sp. nov., a new early sauropodomorph from the lower Elliot Formation (Upper Triassic) of Maphutseng, Lesotho	7
Anatomy, Relationships, and Paleobiology ofCambaytherium(Mammalia, Perissodactylamorpha, Anthracobunia) from the lower Eocene of western India	7
A New Prozostrodontian Cynodont (Eucynodontia, Probainognathia) from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil	7
Tristichopterids (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Upper Devonian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, upper Famennian), with phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic considerations	7
A Basal Nonmammaliaform Cynodont from the Permian of Zambia and the Origins of Mammalian Endocranial and Postcranial Anatomy	7
Norisdelphis annakaensis, A new Miocene delphinid from Japan	7
Cyonasua (Carnivora, Procyonidae) from Late Miocene of Peru Shed Light on the Early Dispersal of Carnivorans in South America	7
A giant Oligocene fossil penguin from the North Island of New Zealand	7
Bone histology of the non-iguanodontian ornithopod Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis and its implications for dinosaur skeletochronology and development	7
Systematics and paleobiology of a new articulated axial specimen referred to Iguanodon cf. galvensis (Ornithopoda, Iguanodontoidea)	7
Phylogenetic placement of Adalatherium hui (Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar: implications for allotherian relationships	7
A new species of crested pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) of Richmond, North West Queensland, Australia	6
A new plastomenid trionychid turtle, Plastomenus joycei , sp. nov., from the earliest Paleocene (Danian) Denver Formation of south-central Colorado, U.S.A.	6
The osteology of Ferrodraco lentoni, an anhanguerid pterosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia	6
Pliocene monachine seal (Pinnipedia: Phocidae) from Australia constrains timing of pinniped turnover in the Southern Hemisphere	6
New Crocodylomorph Material from the Fayum Depression, Egypt, Including the First Occurrence of a Sebecosuchian in African Late Eocene Deposits	6
A new euharamiyidan mammaliaform from the Lower Cretaceous of Yakutia, Russia	6
Osteology and Taxonomy of British Wealden Supergroup (Berriasian–aptian) Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria)	6
A new baenid turtle, Palatobaena knellerorum sp. nov., from the lower Paleocene (Danian) Denver Formation of south-central Colorado, U.S.A.	6
Paleoneurology, auditory region, and associated soft tissue inference in the late Oligocene notoungulates Mendozahippus fierensis and Gualta cuyana (Toxodontia) from central-western Arge	6
Brazilian Permian dvinosaurs (Amphibia, Temnospondyli): revised description and phylogeny	6
The Pikermian tortoises (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the late Miocene of the South Balkans	6
From toad to frog, a CT-based reconsideration of Bufo servatus, an Eocene anuran mummy from Quercy (France)	5
First record of a giant bird (Ornithuromorpha) from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Southern Pyrenees, northeast Spain	5
Functional morphology ofQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)	5
The apex of amphicyonid hypercarnivory: solving the riddle of Agnotherium antiquum Kaup, 1833 (Mammalia, Carnivora)	5
Lekaneleo, a new genus of marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the Oligocene–Miocene of Australia, and the craniodental morphology ofL. roskellyae, comb. nov.	5
The anatomy of the dermatocranium and mandible of Cacops aspidephorus Williston, 1910 (Temnospondyli: Dissorophidae), from the Lower Permian of Texas	5
The discovery, local distribution, and curation of the giant azhdarchid pterosaurs from Big Bend National Park	5
A new species of the carnivorous cynodont Chiniquodon (Cynodontia, Chiniquodontidae) from the Namibian Triassic	5
Radiation and Divergence Times of Batoidea	5
Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod dinosaurHudiesaurus sinojapanorumDong, 1997, from the Turpan Basin, China, and the evolution of hyper-robust antebrachia in sauropods	5
Morphological revision ofCopemys loxodon, type species of the Miocene cricetidCopemys(Mammalia, Rodentia): a key to understanding the history of New World cricetids	5
Metaceratodus baibianorum, a new dipnoan species from the Upper Cretaceous of southern South America supported by traditional and geometric morphometric analyses	5
Golunda aouraghei, sp. nov., the last representative of the genusGolundain Africa	5
A New Species of Megalichthys (Sarcopterygii, Megalichthyidae) from the Upper Devonian (Famennian) of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and a Report on the Cosmine-Covered Osteolepiform Fossils of the Cats	5
A new hypothesis of eudromaeosaurian evolution: CT scans assist in testing and constructing morphological characters	5

Late CretaceousNotogoneusfrom microvertebrate assemblages of the Dinosaur Park Formation, Campanian of southern Alberta, Canada, and insight into the ecology and evolution of early gonorynchids	5
Taphonomic signatures of a new Upper Triassic phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) bonebed from India: aggregation of a juvenile-dominated paleocommunity	5
Habitat of the giant pterosaurQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea): a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Javelina Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Big Bend National Pa	5
A new ornithuromorph bird from the Lower Cretaceous of South America	4
New late Oligocene caviomorph rodents from Mendoza Province, central-western Argentina	4
The earliest recorded fossil pelican, recovered from the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt	4
A revision of skull morphology in Phorusrhacidae (Aves, Cariamiformes)	4
Youngest Interatheriinae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from lower Pliocene Tunuyán Formation (Mendoza, Argentina)	4
First Osteological Record of a Stegosaur (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic of South America	4
Miocene Freshwater Dolphins from La Venta, Huila, Colombia Suggest Independent Invasions of Riverine Environments in Tropical South America	4
New basal ruminants from the Eocene of the Pondaung Formation, Myanmar	4
An Otischalkian dinosauromorph assemblage from the Los Esteros Member (Santa Rosa Formation) of New Mexico and its implications for biochronology and lagerpetid body size	4
The homology, form, and function of the microraptorine lateral pubic tubercle	4
A Partially Complete Skeleton of Hippidion Saldiasi Roth, 1899 (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from the Late Pleistocene of the High Andes in Northern Chile	4
Middle Jurassic Tracks of Sauropod Dinosaurs in a Deep Karst Cave in France	4
First record of the amphibamiform Micropholis stowi from the lower Fremouw Formation (Lower Triassic) of Antarctica	4
Osteology and digital reconstruction of the skull of the early tetrapod Whatcheeria deltae	4
Juvenile Glyptodont (Mammalia, Cingulata) from the Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina: Insights into Mandibular and Dental Characters	4
A new archosauriform reptile with distinctive teeth from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany	4
Pattern and Processes of the Mammalian Turnover of the Arikareean in the Northern Rocky Mountains	4
Craniofacial morphology ofAdalatherium hui(Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar	4
Geologically Oldest Pediomyoidea (Mammalia, Marsupialiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of North America, with Implications for Taxonomy and Diet of Earliest Late Cretaceous Mammals	4
A fossil sea turtle (Reptilia, Pan-Cheloniidae) with preserved soft tissues from the Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark	4
A new Triodus shark species (Xenacanthidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lowermost Permian of France and its paleobiogeographic implications	4
Neurocranial anatomy ofSeymouriafrom Richards Spur, Oklahoma	4
New early late Miocene species of Vishnuonyx (Carnivora, Lutrinae) from the hominid locality of Hammerschmiede, Bavaria, Germany	4
First Pleistocene South American Teratornithidae (Aves): new insights into the late evolutionary history of teratorns	4
A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny	4
A new fairy armadillo (Cingulata, Chlamyphorinae) from the upper Miocene of Argentina: first fossil record of the most enigmatic Xenarthra	4
Oldest Record of African Bagridae and Evidence from Catfishes for a Marine Influence in the Late Eocene Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), Fayum Depression, Egypt	4
Histology of the preparietal: a neomorphic cranial element in dicynodont therapsids	4
Postcranial osteology of the basally branching hadrosauroid dinosaur Tanius sinensis from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China	4
Cryptoclidid plesiosaurs (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of the Atacama Desert	4
Modeling scale morphogenesis in a Devonian chondrichthyan and scale growth patterns in crown gnathostomes	4
A new species of Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758 (Sirenia, Trichechidae), from the upper Pleistocene of southwestern Amazonia, and the evolution of Amazonian manatees	4
A New Lungfish from the Jurassic of Thailand	4
A new sebecid mesoeucrocodylian from the Paleocene of northwestern Argentina	4
Lower jaw morphology ofAdalatherium hui(Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar	4
The First Fossil Record ofCadea(Amphisbaenia, Cadeidae) and other Amphisbaenian Remains from the Upper Pleistocene of Cuba	4
Cranial Anatomy and Dentition of the Aetosaur Typothorax Coccinarum (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic (Revueltian–Mid Norian) Chinle Formation of Arizona	4
Sternal elements of early dinosaurs fill a critical gap in the evolution of the sternum in Avemetatarsalia (Reptilia: Archosauria)	4