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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Two new fossil Tetrigidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Grube Messel (Germany)	18
Panthera pardus burgtonnae ssp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the Eemian of Burgtonna (Thuringia, Germany) – Late Pleistocene European leopards in a new perspective	14
Geology and lithology of the Tagay-1 section at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia), and description of Aplodontidae, Mylagaulidae and Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia)	14
Rugose corals across the Early-Middle Devonian boundary in southern Belgium	12
A dance fly (Empididae: Hilarempis Bezzi) from the Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte (Early Miocene, New Zealand)	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
Amphilagus plicadentis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	11
The reinvention of the progymnosperm plant species Rellimia piedboeufii nov. comb. from the Middle Devonian of Wuppertal (Rhenish Massif, West Germany)	11
A new discosorid and some other nautiloids from the Givetian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany	10
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coal bearing unit: the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, Tabas Block, East-Central Iran	10
Organic carbon isotope stratigraphy of Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections in the Rhenish Mountains	9
Small skeletal fossils associated with Archaeocyath reefs from the Xiannüdong Formation (Cambrian Series 2), southern Shaanxi, China	9
Fossil samaras of Acer L. (Sapindaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of western Yunnan, southwestern China	8
Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)	8
Fieldwork with Peter Königshof	8
The Late Miocene Rhinocerotidae from the Phra Phut sandpit in northeastern Thailand: implication for biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography	8
Global palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns of the Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods (Family: Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840)	8
Palaeoecology and affinities of Nummipera eocenica burrows from the middle Eocene (late Lutetian) of Jiroft area, Central Iran	8
Cricetodontinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	7
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	7
Palaeozoic (Silurian–Devonian) cherts from the Balkan Terrane, western Bulgaria: geochemistry, biostratigraphy and depositional settings	7
The Rhenish Massif: More than 150 years of research in a Variscan mountain chain	7
Late Early to late Middle Pleistocene medium-sized deer from the Italian Peninsula: implications for taxonomy and biochronology	7
A small assemblage of early Oligocene rodents and insectivores from the Sivas basin, Turkey	6

New report of Late Cretaceous struthiosaurids from the Haţeg Basin, with an overview of the Transylvanian ankylosaur fossil record	6
A new species of Eudolops Ameghino, 1897 (Mammalia, Metatheria, Polydolopimorphia) from the middle Eocene of Patagonia	6
The non-apodiform Strisores (potoos, nightjars and allied birds) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze	6
Correction to: Middle Devonian (Eifelian) ostracods from the Tsagaankhaalga Formation (Shinejinst region, Southern Mongolia)	6
Early Cretaceous Equisetites from Slovakia	6
Middle Miocene trace fossils from the Tenes area (NW Algeria) and their palaeoenvironmental implications	6
35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests	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	6
An early form of terrestrial hominine bipedalism in the Late Miocene of Bulgaria	5
Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia)	5
Microscale analysis of the fish Knightia eocaena taphonomy: Implication of a preserved microbial community	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
The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit	5
Refining the rugose coral palaeobiogeography of the western Palaeotethys during the late Visean	5
Diversity and function of the anterior dentitions in fossil and extant mammals	5
Correction to: Devonian to Mississippian strata of the Shine Jinst region revisited: Facies development and stratigraphy in southern Mongolia (Gobi Altai Terrane)	5
Pliocene otoliths from NW India reveal first fossil osphronemid and structure of a Himalayan freshwater ecosystem	4
A new fossil fern of the Dryopteridaceae (Polypodiales) from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	4
Environmental, vegetational and climatic investigations during the Plio-Pleistocene in SW-Anatolia: A case study from the fluvio-lacustrine deposits in Uşak-Karahallı area	4
The Pliocene Ophisaurus (Anguidae) from Eastern Europe: new records and additions to the history of the genus and its palaeoenvironment	4
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
Phylogenetic signal in anteater snout morphology: Implications for interpreting rare vermilinguan fossils	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	3
Late Quaternary shrews (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Priamurye (Russian Far East) according to data from Koridornaya Cave: species diversity and stratigraphical aspects	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
First reelaborated Cretaceous batoid of the Early Miocene from Spain	3
Marsupials (Herpetotheriids) from the late Palaeogene of south-east Serbia	3
Plant-insect interaction from the Middle Jurassic Haifanggou Formaton in Huludao, western Liaoning and its geological implications	3
The identity of the Silurian retiolitine genera Paraplectograptus and Sagenograptoides (Graptoloidea, Retiolitinae)	3
The tubarium construction in Holoretiolites, Neogothograptus and related taxa (Graptolithina, Retiolitinae): clues to their astogeny and species identification	3
Earliest fossil record of Cryptocarya R. Br. (Lauraceae) from Asia and its biogeographic and palaeoenvironmental implications	3
Foraminiferal palaeoecology of the Aptian/Albian deposits of the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin) in northeastern of Brazil	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
Devonian palaeoenvironmental dynamics in Colombia: An integrated sedimentological and geochemical exploration	3
A tribute and memorial for Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig (March 8th, 1955 – August 1st, 2023)	3
Correction to: An early form of terrestrial hominine bipedalism in the Late Miocene of Bulgaria	3
Deep-time maar lakes and other volcanogenic lakes as Fossil-Lagerstätten – An overview	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
Diversity and biolithostratigraphy of foraminifera from the upper Eocene–lower Oligocene Malishka section, Armenia	3
A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	3
Early Cretaceous palaeoenvironment of the Rio do Peixe Basin, Northeastern Brazil	3
Pollen-feeding in a giant pelobatid tadpole from the late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany	2
Introduction to the special issue “Festschrift for Márton Venczel”	2
Editorial to the special issue “Palaeobiological contributions in honour of Thomas Martin’s 65th birthday”	2
The earliest large carpenter bee (Xylocopa) and its adhering pollen (Araliaceae, Theaceae)	2
Changes in macrofaunal groups before, during and after the Cenomanian–Turonian biotic crisis in north Eastern Desert, Egypt	2

A soldier beetle larva in about 100 million years old amber adds chemical defence to the list of anti-predator strategies of immatures in the Kachin amber forest fauna	2
Early Emsian of the Pod Barrandovem section – biostratigraphy, palaeoenvironmental proxies, and correlation of the Bohemian Graptolite Event (Prague Synform, Czech Republic)	2
New ammonoid records and the definition of the base of the German Hemberg-Stufe (Famennian III, Upper Devonian)	2
A home on the sea floor: Benthic graptolites from North German glacial erratic boulders and beyond	2
The genus Goniatites at the Gara el Itima (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) and the limits of Carboniferous ammonoid stratigraphy	2
Quantitative morphological comparison of rake-legged mites over the last 100 million years and the first fossil larva of Caeculidae	2
Parautochthonous nappes in the south-eastern Lahn-Dill area, induced by alpine-type nappe thrusting in the Rhenish Massif (Germany)	2
Iridescent harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae) from the Eocene of Messel, Germany	2
Diversity changes of Pectinoidea (Bivalvia) in the Jurassic seas of the Caucasus (northern Neo-Tethys)	2
Middle Devonian (Eifelian) ostracods from the Tsagaankhaalga Formation (Shinejinst region, Southern Mongolia)	2
Lissamphibian remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany with implications for the evolution of Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous European faunas	2
Gliridae and Eomyidae (Rodentia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	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
Late Devonian (Famennian) phacopid trilobites from western Xinjiang, Northwest China	2
The porcupine Hystrix parvae (Kretzoi, 1951) from the Late Miocene (Turolian, MN11) of Kohfidisch in Austria	2
A small vertebrate (Urodela, Anura, Squamata, Rodentia) assemblage from Fada Nana Cave (Quaternary, northern Italy)	2
Benthic graptolites (Graptolithina, Pterobranchia) in the Miaolingian (Cambrian Series 3)	2
Fenestrate bryozoan fauna from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (western Rhenish Massif, Germany)	2
Early Paleogene precipitation patterns over East Asia: Was there a monsoon after all?	2