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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The topographic evolution of the Tibetan Region as revealed by palaeontology	33
Review of Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary sections in the Rhenish Slate Mountains (Germany)	22
Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in China	18
The Devonian/Carboniferous boundary interval in Poland: multidisciplinary studies in pelagic (Holy Cross Mountains and Sudetes) and ramp (Western Pomerania) successions	15
Global review of the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary: an introduction	15
The Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary around the globe: a complement	12
A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	12
Pteridophytes as primary colonisers after catastrophic events through geological time and in recent history	11
The Devonian-Carboniferous transition at Borkewehr near Wocklum (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany) – a potential GSSP section	11
The Devonian–Carboniferous boundary in Belgium and surrounding areas	10
Geology and lithology of the Tagay-1 section at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia), and description of Aplodontidae, Mylagaulidae and Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia)	10
The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America	10
A new window to the fossil herpetofauna of India: amphibians and snakes from the Miocene localities of Kutch (Gujarat)	9
Recent advances in the study of the ferns from Middle Jurassic Baiyanghe flora of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China	8
The Hushoot Shiveetiin gol section (Baruunhuurai Terrane, Mongolia): sedimentology and facies from a Late Devonian island arc setting	8
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	8
The foraminiferal zonal scale of the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary beds in Russia and Western Kazakhstan and its correlation with ammonoid and conodont scales	8
Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)	8
Palaeomagnetic data from the late Cenozoic Tagay section (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	8
Amphilagus plicadentis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	7
Late early to early middle Eocene climate and vegetation change at Tastakh Lake (northern Yakutia, eastern Siberia)	7
Palynofacies as a palaeoenvironment and hydrocarbon source potential assessment tool: An example from the Cretaceous of north Western Desert, Egypt	7
Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): A preliminary report	7
Gliridae and Eomyidae (Rodentia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	7
The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)	7

Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene climate dynamics in western North America based on a new pollen record from paleo-Lake Idaho	7
The identity of the “lion”, Panthera principialis sp. nov., from the Pliocene Tanzanian site of Laetoli and its significance for molecular dating the pantherine phylogeny, with remarks on Panthera sha	6
The northernmost Eurasian Miocene beavers: Euroxenomys (Castoridae, Mammalia) from Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal (Eastern Siberia)	6
Climate and vegetation change during the Upper Siwalik—a study based on the palaeobotanical record of the eastern Himalaya	6
35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests	6
Brachiopods from the historical type area of the Viséan Stage (Carboniferous, Mississippian; Belgium) and the Visé fauna: preliminary remarks	6
A fossil aphidlion preserved together with its prey in 40 million-year-old Baltic amber	6
The Pliocene Ophisaurus (Anguidae) from Eastern Europe: new records and additions to the history of the genus and its palaeoenvironment	6
Facies, magnetic susceptibility and timing of the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval (Xom Nha Formation, Central Vietnam)	6
Linking modern-day relicts to a Miocene mangrove community of western Amazonia	6
Late Quaternary vegetation and climate of SE Europe–NW Asia according to pollen records in three offshore cores from the Black and Marmara seas	5
Cricetodontinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	5
Palaeoenvironmental conditions for the natural vulcanization of the Eocene “monkeyhair” laticifers from Geiseltal, Germany, as elucidated by Raman spectroscopy	5
Late Devonian (Famennian) to Carboniferous (Mississippian-Pennsylvanian) conodonts from the Anarak section, Central Iran	5
Palaeoclimatic models - predicted changes in the potential Neogene distribution patterns of Phlebotomus similis and Phlebotomus sergenti (Insecta: Diptera: Psychodidae)	5
Middle Jurassic palaeoclimate changes within the central Ordos Basin based on palynological records	5
The late Miocene Beli Breg Basin (Bulgaria): palaeoecology and climate reconstructions based on pollen data	4
A new middle Miocene lineage based on taxonomic revision of the large and rare cricetid-rodent genus Lartetomys	4
The early Cenomanian crippsi Event at Lüneburg (Germany): palaeontological and stratigraphical significance of a widespread Late Cretaceous bioevent	4
Two fossilized swamps containing in situ Sphenophyta stems, rhizomes, and root systems from the Middle Jurassic Hojedk Formation, Kerman area (Iran)	4
Rosselia ichnofabrics from the Lower Ordovician of the Alborz Mountains (northern Iran): palaeoecology, palaeobiology and sedimentology	4
New species from the early Eocene London Clay suggest an undetected early Eocene diversity of the Leptosomiformes, an avian clade that includes a living fossil from Madagascar	4
Palynoflora and palaeoclimate of the late Early Jurassic (Toarcian) in eastern Liaoning, China	4
Fossil frogs from the early Campanian of West Texas, USA, with comments on Late Cretaceous anuran diversity in southern Laramidia	4
Early Pleistocene amphibians and squamates from Copăceni (Dacian Basin, southern Romania)	4
The Mandalovoo–Gurvansayhan terranes in the southern Gobi of Mongolia: new insights from the Bayankhoshuu Ruins section	4
Plant fossils from the middle Siwalik of eastern Nepal and their climatic and phytogeographic significance	4
First record of Pliocene (Zanclean to mid Piacenzian) marine deposits on Rhodes (Greece): implications for eastern Mediterranean palaeo(bio)geography	4
Modern brackish bryostromatolites (“bryoliths”) from Zeeland (Netherlands)	4
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)	4
A stratigraphically significant new zosterophyllopsid from the Rhenish Lower Devonian (W Germany)	4
Lithofacies variability and facies analysis of a Givetian reef in the southwestern Lahn Syncline (Rhenish Massif, Germany)	3
Palaeozoic (Silurian–Devonian) cherts from the Balkan Terrane, western Bulgaria: geochemistry, biostratigraphy and depositional settings	3
Snapshot of the Pliocene environment of West Kunlun region, Northwest China	3
Redescription of the Sanqiaspidae (Galeaspida) from the Lower Devonian of South China and its biostratigraphic significance	3
Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the Pliocene-Pleistocene locality of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco	3
A myricaceous male inflorescence with pollen in situ from the middle Eocene of Europe	3
Environmental, vegetational and climatic investigations during the Plio-Pleistocene in SW-Anatolia: A case study from the fluvio-lacustrine deposits in Uşak-Karahallı area	3
Ancylotherium pentelicum (Mammalia, Chalicotheriidae) from the late Miocene of Kerassia (Greece) and remarks on its intraspecific variability	3
Sedimentation and reworking of volcanic detritus in Frasnian and lower Famennian carbonate rocks of the Velbert Anticline (Rhenish Massif, Germany)	3
An intriguing find of an early Middle Pleistocene European snow leopard, Panthera uncia pyrenaica ssp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae), from the Arago cave (Tautavel, Pyrénées-Orientales, France)	3
The Rhenish Massif: More than 150 years of research in a Variscan mountain chain	3
The periotic of a basal balaenopterid from the Tortonian of the Stirone River, northern Italy (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae)	3
Evidence of biotic recovery through the Cretaceous/Palaeogene transition from the Mahadeo-Cherrapunji succession in the Meghalaya shelf, India	3
Fringing reef growth in the Mid-Devonian: An example from the southern Rhenish Massif, Germany	2
Age Assignment, Palaeoecology and Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Nukhul Formation at Wadi Baba, West-Central Sinai (Egypt)	2
The Permian–Triassic boundary section at Baghuk Mountain, Central Iran: carbonate microfacies and depositional environment	2
New late Oligocene rodent faunas from the Pannonian basin	2
A middle Eocene treefall pit and its filling: a microenvironmental study from the onset of a forest mire in the Geiseltal (Germany)	2
Menatanthus mosbruggeri gen. nov. et sp. nov. – A flower with in situ pollen tetrads from the Paleocene maar lake of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France)	2

Refined conodont stratigraphy at Martenberg (Rhenish Massif, Germany) as base for a formal middle/upper Frasnian substage boundary	2
From tree to architecture: how functional morphology of arborescence connects plant biology, evolution and physics	2
Early Paleogene precipitation patterns over East Asia: Was there a monsoon after all?	2
Richness of Famennian-Tournaisian (Late Devonian-early Carboniferous) bryozoans in shallow areas of Palaeotethys and Palaeoasian oceans	2
Marsupials (Herpetotheriids) from the late Palaeogene of south-east Serbia	2
Fossil Gordonia (s.l.)–like (Theaceae) winged seeds from the early Miocene of the Mecsek Mts, W Hungary	2
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coal bearing unit: the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, Tabas Block, East-Central Iran	2
Bone diagenesis of tetrapods from the Middle Triassic Tarjados Formation: implication for depositional environment and palaeoclimate	2
Diversity patterns of Middle Permian gastropod assemblages from the Tak Fa Formation, Central Thailand	2
Fenestrate bryozoan fauna from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (western Rhenish Massif, Germany)	2
Two new species of Gondwanaspis (Trilobita, Odontopleurida) from the Givetian-Frasnian transition of the northern Rhenish Massif (Germany)	2
Fossil samaras of Acer L. (Sapindaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of western Yunnan, southwestern China	2
On the antiquity and status of the Spalacidae, new data from the late Eocene of south-East Serbia	2
A new discosorid and some other nautiloids from the Givetian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany	2
Trepostome bryozoans buck the trend and ignore calcite-aragonite seas	2
A plant fossil assemblage of Lycopodiopsis cf. derbyi from the Corumbataí Formation, Paraná Basin, São Paulo State, Brazil	2
A review of the Late Triassic conodont conundrum: survival beyond biotic perturbations	2
Vegetation dynamics in a disturbed lacustrine record: The Eocene maar lake of Groß-Zimmern (Hesse, SW Germany)	2
Sediment geochemistry of the section Tagay-1 at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): a contribution to palaeoenvironmental interpretations	2