OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Mammalian Evolution 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Climbing Adaptations of an Enigmatic Early Arctoid Carnivoran: the Functional Anatomy of the Forelimb of Amphicynodon leptorhynchus From the Lower Oligocene of the Quercy Phosphorites (France)	18
Down a Rabbit Hole: Burrowing Behaviour and Larger Home Ranges are Related to Larger Brains in Leporids	17
Remember to Chew your Food: New Paradigms for the Evolution of Mastication	14
New reports, updates, and additional comments about Neobrachytherium ullumense Soria, 2001 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) in the Late Miocene of Uruguay and Argentina	14
New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola	13
The effects of ordered multistate morphological characters on phylogenetic analyses of eutherian mammals	12
Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales	12
Taxonomy and evolutionary history of peradectids (Metatheria): New data from the early Eocene of France	12
Endocranial Morphology of a Middle Miocene South American Dugongid and the Neurosensorial Evolution of Sirenians	12
Reconstructing the distribution of Chacoan biota from current and past evidence: the case of the southern three-banded armadillo Tolypeutes matacus (Desmarest, 1804)	12
New suid remains from the early Vallesian (Late Miocene) site of Can Missert (Vallès-Penedès Basin)	12
How Can Phenotypic Evolution be Characterized Over Time and Through Environmental Changes?	11
Chaetophractus villosus (Desmarest, 1804) (Xenarthra: Euphractinae) in Uruguay (Upper Pleistocene): Taxon age, biogeography, and paleoclimatic implications	10
Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications	9
Phylogeography of the Endangered Franciscana Dolphin: Timing and Geological Setting of the Evolution of Populations	9
New Material of Schizotheriine Chalicothere (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae) from the Xianshuihe Formation (Early Miocene) of Lanzhou Basin, Northwest China	9
The Narial Anatomy of Extinct and Extant Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora): Osteological Anomalies in the Extant Two-Toed Sloth Choloepus	9
New interpretation of dentition in Early Cretaceous docodontan Sibirotherium based on micro-computed tomography	8
The Cranial Morphospace of Extant Marsupials	8
On the Unnecessary and Misleading Taxon “Cetartiodactyla”	8
Morphometric Analysis of the Mandible of Primitive Sabertoothed Felids from the late Miocene of Spain	8
A new spiral-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain	8
New evidence for the unique coexistence of two subfamilies of clawed perissodactyls (Mammalia, Chalicotheriidae) in the Upper Miocene of Romania and the Eastern Mediterranean	7
Stuck between rivers: a new species of Ctenomys from northern Argentine Patagonia	7
Limb osteology of Miocene tragulids from Napak (Uganda) and inferences on palaeoecology in comparison to other extinct and extant relatives	7

Hidden in plain sight: Didelphis albiventris (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) might not be a single species	7
New insights into the upper and lower deciduous dentition of Pyrotherium from the late Oligocene of South America	7
Plohophorini glyptodonts (Xenarthra, Cingulata) from the late Neogene of northwestern Argentina. Insight into their diversity, evolutionary history, and paleobiogeography	7
The Quaternary lions of Ukraine and a trend of decreasing size in Panthera spelaea	7
An island apart: Cranial endocast variation and sensory function in Tenrecomorpha	6
Correction to: The Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity of the Olive Field Mouse Abrothrix olivacea (Cricetidae; Abrotrichini) is Latitudinally Structured Across Its Geographic Distribution	6
The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): A comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals	6
Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)	6
Geometric morphometrics as a tool to identify Dasypodini osteoderms: Implications for the oldest records of Dasypus	6
Correction: New materials of Lophiomeryx (Artiodactyla: Lophiomerycidae) from the Oligocene of Nei Mongol, China	6
On the Eating Habits of Sloths: Finite Element Analysis and Niche Specialization	6
Late Miocene Hipparion (Equidae, Perissodactyla) fossils from Fugu, northern Shaanxi, China, and their stratigraphic significance	5
Morphological and Functional Divergence of the Lower Jaw Between Native and Invasive Red Foxes	5
Deinotherium levius and Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany), and their biostratigraphic significance for the ter	5
New Specimens of Reigitherium bunodontum from the Late Cretaceous La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina and Meridiolestidan Diversity in South America	5
Mammalian Petrosals from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Utah, USA) Reveal Non-canonical Evolution of Middle and Inner Ear Characters	5
Mating System, Breeding Success, and Pup Mortality of a Habitat Specialist Rodent: A Field and Molecular-based Approach	5
Way to big cats: Directional selection in body size evolution in living felids	5
Hind Limb Bone Proportions Reveal Unexpected Morphofunctional Diversification in Xenarthrans	5
The hindlimb of Amphicynodon leptorhynchus from the lower Oligocene of the Quercy Phosphorites (France): Highlight of new climbing adaptations of this early arctoid	5
Systematics and biogeography of the Atlantic Forest endemic genus Juliomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae): A test of diversification hypothesis using mitochondrial data	5
The minimum free energy of G-quadruplex-forming sequences of the MSX1 intron is associated with relative molar and premolar size in eutherians	4
Sign-oriented Dirichlet Normal Energy: Aligning Dental Topography and Dental Function in the R-package molaR	4
Cranial geometric morphometrics of jumping mice (Genera: Eozapus, Napaeozapus, and Zapus; Zapodinae, Rodentia): Implications for subspecies conservation	4
The easternmost occurrence of the Late Miocene schizotheriine chalicothere Ancylotherium pentelicum at the classical locality of Maragheh (Iran)	4
Comparative Endocranial Anatomy, Encephalization, and Phylogeny of Notoungulata (Placentalia, Mammalia)	4
New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Exaeretodon riograndensis (Eucynodontia: Traversodontidae): phylogenetic implications, body mass, and lifestyle	4
Three areas of cranial evolution in the white-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis): An initial report on asymmetry, ontogeny and modularity	4
Evolution Towards Fossoriality and Morphological Convergence in the Skull of Spalacidae and Bathyergidae (Rodentia)	4
An exceptionally well-preserved fossil rodent of the South American subterranean clade Ctenomys (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae). Phylogeny and adaptive profile	4
Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry	4
The Dorsal Integument of the Southern Long-Nosed Armadillo Dasypus hybridus (Cingulata, Xenarthra), and a Possible Neural Crest Origin of the Osteoderms. Discussing Evolutive Consequences for Amniota	4
A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	4
Extensive Interspecific Gene Flow Shaped Complex Evolutionary History and Underestimated Species Diversity in Rapidly Radiated Dolphins	4
The Early Eocene Climatic Optimum at the Lower Section of the Lumbrera Formation (Ypresian, Salta Province, Northwestern Argentina): Origin and Early Diversification of the Cingulata	4
Tooth Size Variation in Assemblages of Tremacyllus (Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata): Insights into Geographical Gradients, Systematics, and Sexual Dimorphism	4
An enigmatic giraffid from the latest Miocene of Italy: Taxonomy, affinity, and paleobiogeographic implications	3
Characterizing patterns of selection pressure on mammalian antiviral immune response	3
The Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity of the Olive Field Mouse Abrothrix olivacea (Cricetidae; Abrotrichini) is Latitudinally Structured Across Its Geographic Distribution	3
The Record of Prodeinotherium in the Iberian Peninsula: New Data from the Vallès-Penedès Basin	3
Quaternary Eurasian badgers: Intraspecific variability and species validity	3
The Oldest Species of Dolichotis (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pliocene of Argentina: Redescription and Taxonomic Status of “Orthomyctera” chapalmalense	3
Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds	3
Correction to: A New Species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from Patagonia Related to C. sociabilis	3
Comparison of Hindlimb Muscle Architecture Properties in Small-Bodied, Generalist Mammals Suggests Similarity in Soft Tissue Anatomy	3
A New Mammal Skull from the Late Cretaceous of Romania and Phylogenetic Affinities of Kogaionid Multituberculates	3
Conservation Genetics of the Critically Endangered Riverine Rabbit, Bunolagus monticularis: Structured Populations and High mtDNA Genetic Diversity	3
The cranium and dentition of Khirtharia (Artiodactyla, Raoellidae): new data on a stem taxon to Cetacea	3
Evolutionary rates, disparity, and ecomorphology of the mandible in American marsupials	3
Using Ultraconserved Elements to Unravel Lagomorph Phylogenetic Relationships	2

Trophic differentiation between the endemic Cypriot mouse and the house mouse: a study coupling stable isotopes and morphometrics	2
Tursiops truncatus nuuanu, a new subspecies of the common bottlenose dolphin from the eastern tropical Pacific	2
New remains of Ailuropoda melanoleuca baconi from Yanjinggou, China: Throwing light on the evolution of giant pandas during the Pleistocene	2
High Allelic Diversity of Dog Leukocyte Antigen Class II in East Asian Dogs: Identification of New Alleles and Haplotypes	2
Megantereon adroveri from the Early Pleistocene of Taurida Cave, Crimea, and the European Lineage of Dirk-toothed Cats	2
New insights on the ecology and behavior of Machairodus aphanistus (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) through the paleopathological study of the fossil sample from the Late Miocene (Vallesian, MN	2
The Endocranial Cast of Indohyus (Artiodactyla, Raoellidae): The Origin of the Cetacean Brain	2
Correction to: A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts	2
From Embryo to Adult: The Complete Development and Unusual Replacement of the Dentition of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)	2
Approaches to studying endocranial morphology in Euarchontoglires: Assessing sources of error for a novel and biologically informative set of landmarks	2
Temperature changes affected mammal dispersal during the Great American Biotic Interchange	2
Functional morphology of plesiadapiform distal phalanges and implications for the evolution of arboreality in Paleogene euarchontans	2
Pelvic sexual dimorphism and its association with cranial morphology in Neotropical spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae)	2
First Apatemyid Mammal from Central Asia	2
Temporal lobe evolution in extant and extinct Cercopithecoidea	2
A New Species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from Patagonia Related to C. sociabilis	2
A reassessment of Nemolestes (Mammalia, Metatheria): Systematics and evolutionary implications for Sparassodonta	2
Sizing up swords: Correlated evolution of antlers and tusks in ruminants	2
Cranial integration and modularity in chamois: The effects of subspecies and sex	2
Coexistence of Indarctos and Amphimachairodus (Carnivora) in the Late Early Hemphillian of Florida, North America	2
Distal Humeral Morphology Indicates Locomotory Divergence in Extinct Giant Kangaroos	2
Serendipity and adaptation in New World marsupial evolution	2
Petrosal morphology of the Early Cretaceous triconodontid Astroconodon from the Cloverly Formation (Montana, USA)	2
Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Damiao, Nei Mongol, China	2
Correction to: The vocal apparatus: An understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation in bats?	2
Anatomical, Ontogenetic, and Genomic Homologies Guide Reconstructions of the Teeth-to-Baleen Transition in Mysticete Whales	1
Ulna Curvature in Arboreal and Terrestrial Primates	1
Not all size measures are created equal: different body size proxies are not equivalent fitness predictors in the bat Carollia perspicillata	1
Paleoecological Inferences from Long Bone Microanatomical Specializations in Hippopotamoidea (Mammalia, Artiodactyla)	1
New data from South American hotspots uncover a greater diversity in Gracilinanus (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) mouse opossums	1
Bayesian network analysis reveals the assembly drivers and emergent stability of Eurasian Pleistocene large mammal communities	1
Total Dental Occlusal Area as a Feeding Constraint Feature in Extant Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and Implications for the Evolution of Molluscivory in Odobenidae	1
The vocal apparatus: An understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation in bats?	1
Developmental Plasticity in the Ossification of the Proximal Femur of Heterocephalus glaber (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)	1
Pleistocene Hedgehog Mesechinus (Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) in China	1
Phylogeography of the capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, in a large portion of its distribution area in South America	1
Evolution of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and the Prion Protein Gene (PRNP) in Mammals	1
Description of a fetal skeleton of the extinct sloth Nothrotherium maquinense (Xenarthra, Folivora): Ontogenetic and palaeoecological interpretations	1
Head myology of wild cavies (Caviidae, Caviomorpha) and functional implications of hystricomorphous and hystricognathous configurations	1
First Pyrotheria (Mammalia, Meridiungulata) from the Quebrada de Los Colorados Formation (middle Eocene–early Oligocene) at Los Cardones National Park, northwestern Argentina	1
Metabolic skinflint or spendthrift? Insights into ground sloth integument and thermophysiology revealed by biophysical modeling and clumped isotope paleothermometry	1
Correction to: The Endocranial Cast of Indohyus (Artiodactyla, Raoellidae): The Origin of the Cetacean Brain	1
Iterative Habitat Transitions are Associated with Morphological Convergence of the Backbone in Delphinoids	1
Skeletal Variation and Taxonomic Boundaries in the Pen-tailed Treeshrew (Scandentia: Ptilocercidae; Ptilocercus lowii Gray, 1848)	1
Ecomorphology of the Early Pleistocene Badger Meles dimitrius from Greece	1
Cranial Anatomy of Csakvaromys bredai (Rodentia, Sciuridae, Xerinae) and Implications for Ground Squirrel Evolution and Systematics	1
New materials of Pliorhinus ringstroemi from the Linxia Basin (Late Miocene, eastern Asia) and their taxonomical and evolutionary implications	1
Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea	1
Comparison of dental topography of marmosets and tamarins (Callitrichidae) to other platyrrhine primates using a novel freeware pipeline	1
Body mass estimation from cheek tooth measurements in extinct caviomorphs (Ctenohystrica, Hystricognathi): the importance of predictor, reference sample and method	1
Anatomy and phylogeny of a new small macraucheniid (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Bahía Inglesa Formation (late Miocene), Atacama Region, Northern Chile	1
New materials of Lophiomeryx (Artiodactyla: Lophiomerycidae) from the Oligocene of Nei Mongol, China	1
Looking under stones: A new Ctenomys species from the rocky foothills of the Sierras Grandes of central Argentina	1
Allometric brain reduction in an insular, dwarfed population of black-tailed deer	1