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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Two new fossil Tetrigidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Grube Messel (Germany)	21
Geology and lithology of the Tagay-1 section at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia), and description of Aplodontidae, Mylagaulidae and Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia)	18
The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America	17
A dance fly (Empididae: Hilarempis Bezzi) from the Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte (Early Miocene, New Zealand)	14
Rugose corals across the Early-Middle Devonian boundary in southern Belgium	13
The reinvention of the progymnosperm plant species Rellimia piedboeufii nov. comb. from the Middle Devonian of Wuppertal (Rhenish Massif, West Germany)	12
Pre-Quaternary maar lakes/volcanogenic lakes as Konservat Lagerstätten—Messel and beyond	11
Depositional history of Devonian and Mississippian rocks from southern Mongolia: Stratigraphic and sedimentologic framework of a volcanic arc system	11
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coal bearing unit: the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, Tabas Block, East-Central Iran	11
Global palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns of the Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods (Family: Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840)	10
Amphilagus plicadentis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	10
Small skeletal fossils associated with Archaeocyath reefs from the Xiannüdong Formation (Cambrian Series 2), southern Shaanxi, China	10
Palaeoecology and affinities of Nummipera eocenica burrows from the middle Eocene (late Lutetian) of Jiroft area, Central Iran	9
A new discosorid and some other nautiloids from the Givetian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany	9
Organic carbon isotope stratigraphy of Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections in the Rhenish Mountains	9
Fossil samaras of Acer L. (Sapindaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of western Yunnan, southwestern China	8
A small assemblage of early Oligocene rodents and insectivores from the Sivas basin, Turkey	8
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	8
Palaeozoic (Silurian–Devonian) cherts from the Balkan Terrane, western Bulgaria: geochemistry, biostratigraphy and depositional settings	8
Fieldwork with Peter Königshof	8
Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)	8
Late Early to late Middle Pleistocene medium-sized deer from the Italian Peninsula: implications for taxonomy and biochronology	8
The Rhenish Massif: More than 150 years of research in a Variscan mountain chain	7
New report of Late Cretaceous struthiosaurids from the Haţeg Basin, with an overview of the Transylvanian ankylosaur fossil record	7
Cricetodontinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	7

The non-apodiform Strisores (potoos, nightjars and allied birds) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze	7
Early Cretaceous Equisetites from Slovakia	6
Correction to: Middle Devonian (Eifelian) ostracods from the Tsagaankhaalga Formation (Shinejinst region, Southern Mongolia)	6
A new species of Eudolops Ameghino, 1897 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Polydolopimorphia) from the middle Eocene of Patagonia	6
Bryozoan fauna from the Samnuuruul Formation (Upper Devonian, Famennian) of the Hushoot Shiveetiin gol section, southwestern Mongolia	6
Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): A preliminary report	5
Revisiting the Silurian–Lower Devonian spiriferide and spiriferinide brachiopods from the Condroz Inlier and Ardenne Allochthon (Belgium): current data and perspectives	5
Lower and middle Famennian (Upper Devonian) conodont biostratigraphy from Compte section (Central Pyrenees, Spain)	5
Environmental, vegetational and climatic investigations during the Plio-Pleistocene in SW-Anatolia: A case study from the fluvio-lacustrine deposits in Uşak-Karahallı area	5
Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia)	5
An early form of terrestrial hominine bipedalism in the Late Miocene of Bulgaria	5
Correction to: Devonian to Mississippian strata of the Shine Jinst region revisited: Facies development and stratigraphy in southern Mongolia (Gobi Altai Terrane)	5
The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit	5
Diversity and function of the anterior dentitions in fossil and extant mammals	5
35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests	5
Middle Miocene trace fossils from the Tenes area (NW Algeria) and their palaeoenvironmental implications	5
Microscale analysis of the fish Knightia eocaena taphonomy: Implication of a preserved microbial community	5
Pliocene otoliths from NW India reveal first fossil osphronemid and structure of a Himalayan freshwater ecosystem	5
Eocene sediments and a fresh to brackish water biota from the early rifting stage of the Upper Rhine Graben (west of oil field Landau, southwest Germany): implications for biostratigraphy, palaeoecolo	4
A new fossil fern of the Dryopteridaceae (Polypodiales) from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	4
Late Quaternary shrews (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Priamurye (Russian Far East) according to data from Koridornaya Cave: species diversity and stratigraphical aspects	4
The identity of the Silurian retiolitine genera Paraplectograptus and Sagenograptoides (Graptoloidea, Retiolitinae)	4
Phylogenetic signal in anteater snout morphology: Implications for interpreting rare vermilinguan fossils	4
The Pliocene Ophisaurus (Anguidae) from Eastern Europe: new records and additions to the history of the genus and its palaeoenvironment	4
The tubarium construction in Holoretiolites, Neogothograptus and related taxa (Graptolithina, Retiolitinae): clues to their astogeny and species identification	4
The Miocene Tagay locality of Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia) – a multidisciplinary approach	4
The environmental history of the Aptian-Albian marine ingressions of the Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil, based on the spatiotemporal distribution of its macroinvertebrates	4
Correction to: An early form of terrestrial hominine bipedalism in the Late Miocene of Bulgaria	4
Devonian palaeoenvironmental dynamics in Colombia: An integrated sedimentological and geochemical exploration	3
Early Cretaceous palaeoenvironment of the Rio do Peixe Basin, Northeastern Brazil	3
Rainiest Spain: amphibians and reptiles from the late Early Pleistocene-age site of El Chaparral (Cádiz)	3
Extraordinary occlusion of caniniforms in the Eocene Masillabune martini from Messel	3
The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)	3
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	3
Plant-insect interaction from the Middle Jurassic Haifanggou Formaton in Huludao, western Liaoning and its geological implications	3
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	3
First reelaborated Cretaceous batoid of the Early Miocene from Spain	3
Earliest fossil record of Cryptocarya R. Br. (Lauraceae) from Asia and its biogeographic and palaeoenvironmental implications	3
Marsupials (Herpetotheriids) from the late Palaeogene of south-east Serbia	3
A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	3
Diversity and biolithostratigraphy of foraminifera from the upper Eocene–lower Oligocene Malishka section, Armenia	3
Deep-time maar lakes and other volcanogenic lakes as Fossil-Lagerstätten – An overview	3
A tribute and memorial for Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig (March 8th, 1955 – August 1st, 2023)	3
Foraminiferal palaeoecology of the Aptian/Albian deposits of the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin) in northeastern of Brazil	3
Gliridae and Eomyidae (Rodentia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	2
Lissamphibian remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany with implications for the evolution of Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous European faunas	2
Changes in macrofaunal groups before, during and after the Cenomanian–Turonian biotic crisis in north Eastern Desert, Egypt	2
Diversity changes of Pectinoidea (Bivalvia) in the Jurassic seas of the Caucasus (northern Neo-Tethys)	2
Quantitative morphological comparison of rake-legged mites over the last 100 million years and the first fossil larva of Caeculidae	2
A small vertebrate (Urodela, Anura, Squamata, Rodentia) assemblage from Fada Nana Cave (Quaternary, northern Italy)	2

The Devonian-Carboniferous transition at Borkewehr near Wocklum (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany) – a potential GSSP section	2
New ammonoid records and the definition of the base of the German Hemberg-Stufe (Famennian III, Upper Devonian)	2
Early Paleogene precipitation patterns over East Asia: Was there a monsoon after all?	2
Parautochthonous nappes in the south-eastern Lahn-Dill area, induced by alpine-type nappe thrusting in the Rhenish Massif (Germany)	2
The porcupine Hystrix parvae (Kretzoi, 1951) from the Late Miocene (Turolian, MN11) of Kohfidisch in Austria	2
The genus Goniatites at the Gara el Itima (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) and the limits of Carboniferous ammonoid stratigraphy	2
Introduction to the special issue “Festschrift for Márton Venczel”	2
Fenestrate bryozoan fauna from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (western Rhenish Massif, Germany)	2
Pollen-feeding in a giant pelobatid tadpole from the late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany	2
Editorial to the special issue “Palaeobiological contributions in honour of Thomas Martin’s 65th birthday”	2
Middle Devonian (Eifelian) ostracods from the Tsagaankhaalga Formation (Shinejinst region, Southern Mongolia)	2
Convergent evolution of defensive appendages – a lithobiomorph-like centipede with a scolopendromorph-type ultimate leg from about 100 million-year-old amber	2
The revision of fossil big-eyed bugs suggests a peculiar evolutionary history of a peculiar true bug family (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae)	2
Benthic graptolites (Graptolithina, Pterobranchia) in the Miaolingian (Cambrian Series 3)	2