OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and insights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina	24
A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio	19
Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications	17
New data on the marine Upper Triassic palaeobiota from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in Austria	11
New predatory beetle larvae from about 100 million years ago and possible niche differentiation effects in the Kachin amber forest	11
Dental remains of ‘Parachleuastochoerus’ valentini (Suidae: Tetraconodontinae) from the early Late Miocene of Sant Quirze (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and phylogenetic impli	10
Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny	10
A reappraisal of the vegetation from the dinosaur-bearing Bahariya Formation (lower Cenomanian; Cretaceous), Egypt	10
An almost complete cranium of Asoriculus gibberodon (Petényi, 1864) (Mammalia, Soricidae) from the early Pliocene of the Jradzor site, Armenia	9
PG-18: turtles reach adult shell shapes at about 65% maximum carapace length	9
Pachycormid fish fed on octobrachian cephalopods: new evidence from the ‘Schistes bitumineux’ (early Toarcian) of southern Luxembourg	9
Correction: Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber	9
Novel insights into early life stages of finned octopods (Octopoda: Cirrata)	8
A redescription of Brouffia orientalis Carroll & Baird, 1972 from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic and the status and affinities of protorothyridid amniotes	8
Triassic palynology of the Swiss Belchentunnel: a restudy of the Scheuring samples	8
Cranial and mandibular anatomy of Plastomenus thomasii and a new time-tree of trionychid evolution	8
Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland	8
Upper Jurassic dinosaur tracks from the Majala Formation in the Huatacondo area (Tarapacá Basin, Chile): reappraisal of known localities and new tracksite discoveries	8
Integrated palynology and sedimentology of the Mississippian of the Tisdafine Basin (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)	8
Middle Miocene (Badenian) fishes from the north-west of the Fore-Carpathian Basin	8
A new anguine lizard (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae) from the Late Miocene (Vallesian) of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)	8
Whorl records: book review of Raimund Albersdörfer and Kristin Erdmann (2024), Ammonite masterpieces	7
Damaged glyptodontid skulls from Late Pleistocene sites of northwestern Venezuela: evidence of hunting by humans?	7
A new ichnotaxonomic name for burrows in vertebrate coprolites from the Miocene Chesapeake Group of Maryland, U.S.A	7
Relationships of growth increments of internal shells and age through entire life cycles in three cultured neritic cephalopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) with re-evaluation as application for age determi	7

Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland	6
Flying turtles in the earliest trees of life: scientific transparency in the phylogenetic works of Ernst Haeckel	6
The Mayer-Eymar collection of Cenozoic mollusks	6
Jörn Geister: just some words for a life	6
The impact of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis on belemnite assemblages and size distribution	6
First evidence of Proganochelys quenstedtii (Testudinata) from the Plateosaurus bonebeds (Norian, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland	5
Cephalopod palaeobiology: evolution and life history of the most intelligent invertebrates	5
Scleractinian corals from the Lower Cretaceous of the Alpstein area (Anthozoa; Vitznau Marl; lower Valanginian) and a preliminary comparison with contemporaneous coral assemblages	5
New information on the dentition of Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes) from the Early Triassic of Yuan’an, Hubei Province, China	5
Phylogenetics and systematics of the subfamilies Cheirurinae and Deiphoninae (Trilobita)	5
A new species of the genus Caturus (Caturidae, Amiiformes) from the Upper Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago (Germany)	5
Taxonomic reassessment of “Podocnemis” argentinensis (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Maíz Gordo Formation (late Paleocene) with a description of new specimens from the western flank of Sierra del Ma	5
Testudinid turtle remains from the Late Miocene palaeo-island of Gargano, Italy, and an overview of Mediterranean insular tortoises	5
A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications	4
On the occurrence of the ammonite genus Blaschkeiceras Zeiss, 2001, from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) of the Jaisalmer Basin, western India	4
The history of short-tailed whip scorpions: changes in body size and flagellum shape in Schizomida	4
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	4
Coral fauna across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran	4
Cranial and endocranial comparative anatomy of the Pleistocene glyptodonts from the Santiago Roth Collection	4
The oldest Gondwanan record of the extinct durophagous hybodontiform chondrichthyan, Strophodus from the Bajocian of Morocco	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 report on palaeontological excavations and sampling in mudrocks: some guidelines	4
New Odonatan oviposition ichnotaxa from the Lower Jurassic of Iran	4
New or poorly known Neocomitidae (Ammonitina, Ammonoida) from the lower Hauterivian sedimentary series of the Jura platform and the Vocontian trough (France and Switzerland)	4
Evolution of the rostral vasculature in turtles	4
Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth	4
Neuroanatomy of Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani provide insights into the early evolution of the turtle brain	4
Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview	4
A new graptolite (Pterobranchia) from the early Cambrian Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte of China	4