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Papers

(The median citation count of Ichnos-An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Metre-scale, upward-radiating burrow systems in Pleistocene aeolian sandstone, Cape South Coast, South Africa: a new ichnotaxon	22
Teredolitesdriftwood from the Arkadelphia Formation–Midway Group Contact (K–Pg), Malvern, Arkansas, USA	19
Diving neoichnology: underwater fieldwork focusing on organism and seafloor ecosystem interactions	19
Report of 18 ^th International Ichnofabric Workshop, 26-31 May 2025 in Granada (Spain)	11
Trace fossils on megafaunal bone remains from Quaternary natural tank deposits of Brazil: A case study in João Cativo Paleontological site, Megafauna Valley, Brazil	9
Trace fossils of hypersaline environment and its implication in identifying tidal inundation boundary in Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India	8
Morphology of Radhostium carpaticum Plička and Říha, 1989 in new finds from the Outer Western Carpathians (Upper Cretaceous – Eocene flysch deposits of the Biele Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia)	7
The role of neoichnology in environmental geoscience	7
Ichnology of a tropical delta and associated strandplain: the Oligocene–Miocene Ciénaga de Oro Formation of Colombia	7
First record of a small stegosaur footprint (cf.Stegopodus) from the ?Upper Jurassic-?Lower Cretaceous red beds of the Middle Atlas, Morocco	7
Unraveling stratigraphic complexities of transgressive surfaces with trace fossil omission suites and juxtaposed softground suites	6
The paleoichnofauna in bones of Brazilian Quaternary cave deposits and the proposition of two new ichnotaxa	6
The impacts of diagenesis on bioturbated ramp deposits: A study of Arab-D outcrops in Wadi Malham, Central Saudi Arabia	6
Taphonomic overprinting on the late Palaeozoic terrestrial plant–animal interactions: a noise in the record	6
Sclerobionts on Oscillopha dichotoma (Bayle, 1849) from the Campanian Gurpi Formation, Zagros Basin (SW Iran)	6
Invertebrate trace fossils from Paleogene fluvial strata in Western Washington, USA	5
A brief overview of deep-sea neoichnology: recent advances and prospects for interpreting the trace fossil record	5
New ichnospecies and redescription of Caedichnus Stafford et al., 2015, traces indicative of durophagous predation	5
A gar-bitten vertebrate coprolite from the Neogene of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA, and a new ichnospecies of Machichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006	5
Review of 17th international ichnofabric workshop, 23–25 October 2023 in Faxe (Denmark)	5
Well-preserved Piscichnus waitemata in tidal-flat deposits of the Miocene Shirahama Formation, southwestern Japan and its ichnological, palaeoecological,	4
Possible shod-hominin tracks on South Africa’s Cape coast	4
Decoupling fossil trackways from trackmaker identity in locomotion studies	4
Psammichnites from the Pennsylvanian Rod El-Hamal Formation of Egypt: revisiting paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic patterns of distribution of late Paleozoic ichnospeci	4
Plant stem trace fossils from fluvial deposits of the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana, USA	4

First record of Linichnus Jacobsen & Bromley, 2009, and Nihilichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006, in the Itaboraí Basin (early Eocene), in Sou	4
Aratichnus igen. nov. from the Eocene-aged Baronia Formation, Àger Basin, Lleida, Spain	4
The importance of laboratory-based neoichnological experiments for aquatic palaeoecological analyses	3
Fundalutum tielongtanensis isp. nov., the first record of anomuran microcoprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Tielongtan Group of the Western Kunlun area, NW Tibet	3
Cochlichnus -like traces produced by chironomid midge larvae (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) and a summary of traces produced by modern chironomids	3
Burrow systems of modern subterranean rodents (Ctenomyidae): key neoichnologic features and recognition of fossil examples	3
Neoichnology of Rhinella dorbignyi (Bufonidae) burrows: improving the recognition and interpretation of toad burrows	3
Microcoprolite morphotypes from the Revueltian (Upper Triassic: Norian) age Homestead Site, Garita Creek Formation, east-central New Mexico, USA	2
Ichnofabrics and temporal disjunction: Miocene continental trace fossils in the Precambrian basement of the Orinoco Oil Belt of Venezuela	2
Scolicia,ichnotaxonomic practices, and the limits of behavioural convergence	2
Taphonomic history of a dinosaur skeleton from the upper Cretaceous Frenchman Formation, Canada: insights from ancient rhizoetchings and invertebrate bioerosion trace fossils	2
Taxonomic reappraisal of Nihilichnus from taphonomic perspectives of crocodile predatory ecology	2
Martin G. Lockley (1950–2023): prime mover of vertebrate footprint studies	2
Pleistocene fossil snake traces on South Africa’s Cape south coast	2
Enigmatic vertebrate swimming trace fossils from the Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada, and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction	1
New records of Ctenopholeus in the early Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Bundenbach, SW Germany	1
The new ichnospecies Teredolites solitarius and its taphonomy from the Cenozoic carbonate intervals of Kutch Basin, India	1
Reproducing and understanding a fossil trail in digitized worlds: a protocol to quantitative analyses of movement trajectories	1
Soft-sediment deformation structures in the Lower Cretaceous Robberg Formation, South Africa: distinguishing the effects of dinosaurs and earthquakes in an estuarine, rift basin setting	1
Coleopteran burrows from foreshore settings in Florianópolis, Brazil	1
A new ichnospecies of Nihilichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006 from the Palaeogene of South America: trace makers and ichnological and palaeobiological implications	1
Dating the Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South Africa’s Cape south coast	1
An incisive and innovative ichnologist: remembering the outstanding contributions of Dr. S. George Pemberton, Distinguished University Professor, F.R.S.C	1
A new ichnospecies of Machichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006 from the Quaternary of Northeastern Brazil: insights into rodent interactions with extinct megafaun	1
Effects of X-ray computed tomography (CT) on the ichnologic interpretation of the Mira River estuary sediment core, SW Portugal	1
Identifying and accounting for outcrop constraints on observations in field-based ichnological studies	1
The Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary in the Kurovice section (Southern Moravia, Czech Republic): trace fossils, stable isotopes, and magnetic susceptibility	1