OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Devonian-Carboniferous transition at Borkewehr near Wocklum (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany) – a potential GSSP section	22
The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America	18
Time to say “Goodbye“	15
Sedimentation and reworking of volcanic detritus in Frasnian and lower Famennian carbonate rocks of the Velbert Anticline (Rhenish Massif, Germany)	12
Freshwater ostracod Theriosynoecum pricei (Pinto and Sanguinetti, 1958): ecophysiological variations, taxonomic review and palaeoenvironmental implications	12
A plant fossil assemblage of Lycopodiopsis cf. derbyi from the Corumbataí Formation, Paraná Basin, São Paulo State, Brazil	11
Geology and lithology of the Tagay-1 section at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia), and description of Aplodontidae, Mylagaulidae and Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia)	11
Convergent evolution of defensive appendages – a lithobiomorph-like centipede with a scolopendromorph-type ultimate leg from about 100 million-year-old amber	10
A partial skeleton of Septencoracias from the early Eocene London Clay reveals derived features of bee-eaters (Meropidae) in a putative stem group roller (Aves, Coracii)	10
Pteridophytes as primary colonisers after catastrophic events through geological time and in recent history	9
Review of Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary sections in the Rhenish Slate Mountains (Germany)	8
Bone diagenesis of tetrapods from the Middle Triassic Tarjados Formation: implication for depositional environment and palaeoclimate	8
Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): A preliminary report	8
Global review of the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary: an introduction	8
The Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary around the globe: a complement	7
Two new fossil Tetrigidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Grube Messel (Germany)	7
A middle Eocene treefall pit and its filling: a microenvironmental study from the onset of a forest mire in the Geiseltal (Germany)	7
Deep-time maar lakes and other volcanogenic lakes as Fossil-Lagerstätten – An overview	7
Two fossilized swamps containing in situ Sphenophyta stems, rhizomes, and root systems from the Middle Jurassic Hojedk Formation, Kerman area (Iran)	7
Devonian to Mississippian strata of the Shine Jinst region revisited: Facies development and stratigraphy in southern Mongolia (Gobi Altai Terrane)	7
A fossil aphidlion preserved together with its prey in 40 million-year-old Baltic amber	6
The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)	6
Trepostome bryozoans buck the trend and ignore calcite-aragonite seas	6
Rugose corals across the Early-Middle Devonian boundary in southern Belgium	6
Amphilagus plicadentis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	6

The Požár 3 section in the Prague Synform – a possible candidate auxiliary section for the basal Emsian GSSP redefinition	6
Late Devonian (Famennian) phacopid trilobites from western Xinjiang, Northwest China	6
Climate and vegetation change during the Upper Siwalik—a study based on the palaeobotanical record of the eastern Himalaya	6
Bryozoan fauna from the Ferques Formation (Upper Devonian, Frasnian) of France	5
The possible region of the Late Miocene split of the sandfly subgenus Transphlebotomus Artemiev and the early late Neogene to late Quaternary dispersal of the ancestor of Phlebotomus mascittii Grassi	5
Pre-Quaternary maar lakes/volcanogenic lakes as Konservat Lagerstätten—Messel and beyond	5
First reelaborated Cretaceous batoid of the Early Miocene from Spain	5
Iridescent harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae) from the Eocene of Messel, Germany	5
Exoedaenodus schaubi Hürzeler, 1944 (Dimylidae, Mammalia) from the late Oligocene of Enspel/Germany	4
Redescription of the Sanqiaspidae (Galeaspida) from the Lower Devonian of South China and its biostratigraphic significance	4
A tribute and memorial for Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig (March 8th, 1955 – August 1st, 2023)	4
Upper Devonian to Mississippian global environmental change and impact on conodonts	4
The earliest large carpenter bee (Xylocopa) and its adhering pollen (Araliaceae, Theaceae)	4
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coal bearing unit: the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, Tabas Block, East-Central Iran	4
The mid-Tournaisian Event in the Hörre Nappe — conodont fauna and sequence stratigraphy from the Gladenbach section (Gladenbach Formation, eastern Rhenish Massif)	4
Early Priabonian Mesophyllum dominated coralline algal assemblage from coastal upwelling settings (Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin, Slovakia)	4
A dance fly (Empididae: Hilarempis Bezzi) from the Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte (Early Miocene, New Zealand)	4
New late Oligocene rodent faunas from the Pannonian basin	4
Revision of Lower Devonian clam shrimp (Branchiopoda, Diplostraca) from the Rhenish Massif (Eifel, SW-Germany), and the early colonization of non-marine palaeoenvironments	4
Correction to: Early Priabonian Mesophyllum dominated coralline algal assemblage from coastal upwelling settings (Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin, Slovakia)	4
A new window to the fossil herpetofauna of India: amphibians and snakes from the Miocene localities of Kutch (Gujarat)	4
Correction to: Devonian to Mississippian strata of the Shine Jinst region revisited: Facies development and stratigraphy in southern Mongolia (Gobi Altai Terrane)	3
The Permian–Triassic boundary section at Baghuk Mountain, Central Iran: carbonate microfacies and depositional environment	3
Middle Jurassic palaeoclimate changes within the central Ordos Basin based on palynological records	3
Marsupials (Herpetotheriids) from the late Palaeogene of south-east Serbia	3
Foraminiferal palaeoecology of the Aptian/Albian deposits of the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin) in northeastern of Brazil	3
Modern brackish bryostromatolites (“bryoliths”) from Zeeland (Netherlands)	3
The evolution of the palaeopantherine cats, Palaeopanthera gen. nov. blytheae (Tseng et al., 2014) and Palaeopanthera pamiri (Ozansoy, 1959) comb. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae)	3
A new discosorid and some other nautiloids from the Givetian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany	3
On the antiquity and status of the Spalacidae, new data from the late Eocene of south-East Serbia	3
Green lizards (Squamata, Lacertidae) from ?Pliocene deposits of Węże I in southern Poland, with comments on cranial features for selected lacertids	3
Depauperate survival bryozoans following the first episode of the end-Ordovician mass extinction in the Kuanyinchiao Bed (Hirnantian, Upper Ordovician) of northern Guizhou, South China	3
Evidence of biotic recovery through the Cretaceous/Palaeogene transition from the Mahadeo-Cherrapunji succession in the Meghalaya shelf, India	3
Microscale analysis of the fish Knightia eocaena taphonomy: Implication of a preserved microbial community	2
First record of Pliocene (Zanclean to mid Piacenzian) marine deposits on Rhodes (Greece): implications for eastern Mediterranean palaeo(bio)geography	2
New sea urchins (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from the Famennian of Velbert (W Germany): Evidence for echinoid faunal turnover in the Late Devonian	2
Age Assignment, Palaeoecology and Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Nukhul Formation at Wadi Baba, West-Central Sinai (Egypt)	2
First Miocene whiteflies and psyllids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodoidea and Psylloidea) from Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Conodont stratigraphy and biodiversity of the Middle Devonian Kačák Episode at the Pic de Bissous (Montagne Noire, S-France)	2
Life at the continental–marine interface: palaeoenvironments and biota of the Alcobaça Formation (Late Jurassic, Central Portugal), with a formal definition of the unit appended	2
Palaeoclimate estimates based on the late Miocene to early Pleistocene wood flora of the Bengal Basin: an insight into the climatic evolution of southern Asia	2
Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in China	2
Ancylotherium pentelicum (Mammalia, Chalicotheriidae) from the late Miocene of Kerassia (Greece) and remarks on its intraspecific variability	2
Euboeus mimonti Boieldieu, 1865, the oldest record of an extant species of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) and notes on other species identified as darkling beetles from the Late Pliocene of Willershausen	2
Investigation of the possible role of the Central Paratethys as a migration route and speciation area of the ancestors of Mediterranean Larroussius, Paraphlebotomus and Phlebotomus species	2
An updated look at the taxonomy, stratigraphy, and palaeoecology of the Devonian bivalve genus Ontaria Clarke, 1904 (Cardiolidae, Bivalvia)	2
Mechanical analysis of the wide-hipped titanosaur Savannasaurus elliottorum	2
The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit	2
Introduction to the special issue “Palaeobotanical contributions in honour of Volker Mosbrugger”	2
Palynofacies as a palaeoenvironment and hydrocarbon source potential assessment tool: An example from the Cretaceous of north Western Desert, Egypt	2

Global palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns of the Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods (Family: Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840)	2
The shark and ray teeth of the Lower Miocene (Upper Marine Molasse) from Ballendorf, Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany	2
Palaeomagnetic data from the late Cenozoic Tagay section (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	2
Organic carbon isotope stratigraphy of Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections in the Rhenish Mountains	2
Palaeoecology and affinities of Nummipera eocenica burrows from the middle Eocene (late Lutetian) of Jiroft area, Central Iran	2
Recent advances in the study of the ferns from Middle Jurassic Baiyanghe flora of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China	2
Palaeoenvironments, Palaeoecology, and Palaeoclimate of the “Paleogene Hamadian deposits” west of Bechar (northwestern Sahara, Algeria)	2
Facies, magnetic susceptibility and timing of the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval (Xom Nha Formation, Central Vietnam)	2
Devonian palaeoenvironmental dynamics in Colombia: An integrated sedimentological and geochemical exploration	2
A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	2
Fossil frogs from the early Campanian of West Texas, USA, with comments on Late Cretaceous anuran diversity in southern Laramidia	2
Palaeobiogeographic analysis of late Permian marine invertebrates from the Arunachal Himalaya, NE India	2