OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology is 2. 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
A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names	80
Taxonomic revision of the snakes of the genera Palaeopython and Paleryx (Serpentes, Constrictores) from the Paleogene of Europe	22
A redescription of the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtle Uluops uluops and a new phylogenetic hypothesis of Paracryptodira	20
Failed prey or peculiar necrolysis? Isolated ammonite soft body from the Late Jurassic of Eichstätt (Germany) with complete digestive tract and male reproductive organs	18
Distraction sinking and fossilized coleoid predatory behaviour from the German Early Jurassic	17
A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela	16
Damaged glyptodontid skulls from Late Pleistocene sites of northwestern Venezuela: evidence of hunting by humans?	11
Fish otoliths from the early Miocene of Chile: a window into the evolution of marine bony fishes in the Southeast Pacific	10
Preservation of nautilid soft parts inside and outside the conch interpreted as central nervous system, eyes, and renal concrements from the Lebanese Cenomanian	9
Fossilized leftover falls as sources of palaeoecological data: a ‘pabulite’ comprising a crustacean, a belemnite and a vertebrate from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale	9
A Unitary Association-based conodont biozonation of the Smithian–Spathian boundary (Early Triassic) and associated biotic crisis from South China	8
Evolutionary development of the cephalopod arm armature: a review	8
Multiple Orbitoides d’Orbigny lineages in the Maastrichtian? Data from the Central Sakarya Basin (Turkey) and Arabian Platform successions (Southeastern Turkey and Oman)	8
From fossil trader to paleontologist: on Swiss-born naturalist Santiago Roth and his scientific contributions	8
Report on ammonoid soft tissue remains revealed by computed tomography	7
Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland	7
First record of non-mineralized cephalopod jaws and arm hooks from the latest Cretaceous of Eurytania, Greece	7
Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth	6
A historical vertebrate collection from the Middle Miocene of the Peruvian Amazon	6
An assemblage of giant aquatic snakes (Serpentes, Palaeophiidae) from the Eocene of Togo	6
Cranial and endocranial comparative anatomy of the Pleistocene glyptodonts from the Santiago Roth Collection	6
A study on benthic molluscs and stable isotopes from Kutch, western India reveals early Eocene hyperthermals and pronounced transgression during ETM2 and H2 events	6
Broad snouted cladoselachian with sensory specialization at the base of modern chondrichthyans	5
Novel insights into early life stages of finned octopods (Octopoda: Cirrata)	5
First evidence of Proganochelys quenstedtii (Testudinata) from the Plateosaurus bonebeds (Norian, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland	5

Cranial and mandibular anatomy of Plastomenus thomasii and a new time-tree of trionychid evolution	5
New insights into the taxonomy and evolution of Jurassic planktonic foraminifera	5
Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview	5
A new pachypleurosaur from the Early Ladinian Prosanto Formation in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland	5
Caviomorph rodents from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical Santiago Roth Collection in Switzerland	4
Orthoceratoid and coleoid cephalopods from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland with an updated taxonomic framework for Triassic Orthoceratoidea	4
Middle Triassic Nautilida from the Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland	4
Analysis of septal spacing and septal crowding in Devonian and Carboniferous ammonoids	4
Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland	4
New biostratigraphical data (calcareous nannofossils, ammonites) and Early to Late Barremian transition in the Urgonien Jaune facies and Marnes de la Russille complex of the Swiss Jura Mountains	4
Convergent evolution and convergent loss in the grasping structures of immature earwigs and aphidlion-like larvae as demonstrated by about 100-million-year-old fossils	4
A large Middle Devonian eubrachythoracid ‘placoderm’ (Arthrodira) jaw from northern Gondwana	4
On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis	4
Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	4
The impact of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis on belemnite assemblages and size distribution	4
A large osteoderm-bearing rib from the Upper Triassic Kössen Formation (Norian/Rhaetian) of eastern Switzerland	4
Variations in preservation of exceptional fossils within concretions	4
Pleistocene South American native ungulates (Notoungulata and Litopterna) of the historical Roth collections in Switzerland, from the Pampean Region of Argentina	4
The geography of body size in cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda, Sepiidae)	4
The marine conservation deposits of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland, Italy): the prototype of Triassic black shale Lagerstätten	3
Ontogenetic variation in the cranium of Mixosaurus cornalianus, with implications for the evolution of ichthyosaurian cranial development	3
Revision of the Middle Triassic coelacanth Ticinepomis Rieppel 1980 (Actinistia, Latimeriidae) with paleobiological and paleoecological considerations	3
New data on the marine Upper Triassic palaeobiota from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in Austria	3
The Middle Triassic palaeontomofauna of Monte San Giorgio with the description of Merithone laetitiae (†Permithonidae) gen. et sp. nov.	3
Geology and stratigraphy of the Neogene section along the Oued Beth between Dar bel Hamri and El Kansera (Rharb Basin, northwestern Morocco) and its otolith-based fish fauna: a faunal inventory for th	3
Morphological disparity in extant and extinct sepiid phragmocones: morphological adaptions for phragmocone strength compared to those related to cameral liquid emptying hypotheses	3
More than 100 years of a mistake: on the anatomy of the atlas of the enigmatic Macrauchenia patachonica	3
The swimming trace Undichna from the latest Devonian Hangenberg Sandstone equivalent of Morocco	3
Is the relative thickness of ammonoid septa influenced by ocean acidification, phylogenetic relationships and palaeogeographic position?	3
Fish otoliths from the middle Miocene Pebas Formation of the Peruvian Amazon	3
Early Pliocene otolith assemblages from the outer-shelf environment reveal the establishment of mesopelagic fish fauna over 3 million years ago in southwestern Taiwan	3
‘Arm brains’ (axial nerves) of Jurassic coleoids and the evolution of coleoid neuroanatomy	3
Digital skull anatomy of the Oligocene North American tortoise Stylemys nebrascensis with taxonomic comments on the species and comparisons with extant testudinids of the Gopherus–Manouria clade	2
Comparative bone histology of two thalattosaurians (Diapsida: Thalattosauria): Askeptosaurus italicus from the Alpine Triassic (Middle Triassic) and a Thalattosauroidea indet. from the Carnian of Oreg	2
A forged ‘chimera’ including the second specimen of the protostegid sea turtle Santanachelys gaffneyi and shell parts of the pleurodire Araripemys from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Group of Brazil	2
Kasimovian (late Pennsylvanian) cornute rugose corals from Egypt: taxonomy, facies and palaeogeography of a cool-water fauna from northern Gondwana	2
First discovery of nautilids from the Albian–Cenomanian succession of the Koppeh Dagh Basin, NE Iran	2
The history of palaeontological research and excavations at Monte San Giorgio	2
A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications	2
Observations on mating in Mediterranean Sepiola and Sepietta species and review of mating behaviour in Sepiolinae (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae)	2
A new ichnotaxonomic name for burrows in vertebrate coprolites from the Miocene Chesapeake Group of Maryland, U.S.A	2
Otoliths of the Gobiidae from the Neogene of tropical America	2