OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sedimentation and reworking of volcanic detritus in Frasnian and lower Famennian carbonate rocks of the Velbert Anticline (Rhenish Massif, Germany)	23
The Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary around the globe: a complement	18
Two new fossil Tetrigidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Grube Messel (Germany)	16
The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America	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
Exoedaenodus schaubi Hürzeler, 1944 (Dimylidae, Mammalia) from the late Oligocene of Enspel/Germany	13
Pre-Quaternary maar lakes/volcanogenic lakes as Konservat Lagerstätten—Messel and beyond	12
Depositional history of Devonian and Mississippian rocks from southern Mongolia: Stratigraphic and sedimentologic framework of a volcanic arc system	12
Amphilagus plicadentis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	11
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coal bearing unit: the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, Tabas Block, East-Central Iran	10
A dance fly (Empididae: Hilarempis Bezzi) from the Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte (Early Miocene, New Zealand)	9
Global palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns of the Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods (Family: Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840)	8
Organic carbon isotope stratigraphy of Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections in the Rhenish Mountains	8
The Permian–Triassic boundary section at Baghuk Mountain, Central Iran: carbonate microfacies and depositional environment	8
A new discosorid and some other nautiloids from the Givetian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany	8
Rugose corals across the Early-Middle Devonian boundary in southern Belgium	8
Fieldwork with Peter Königshof	7
Fossil samaras of Acer L. (Sapindaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of western Yunnan, southwestern China	7
Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)	7
Late early to early middle Eocene climate and vegetation change at Tastakh Lake (northern Yakutia, eastern Siberia)	7
Palaeoecology and affinities of Nummipera eocenica burrows from the middle Eocene (late Lutetian) of Jiroft area, Central Iran	7
Palaeozoic (Silurian–Devonian) cherts from the Balkan Terrane, western Bulgaria: geochemistry, biostratigraphy and depositional settings	6
35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests	6
A small assemblage of early Oligocene rodents and insectivores from the Sivas basin, Turkey	6
The Rhenish Massif: More than 150 years of research in a Variscan mountain chain	6

Cricetodontinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	6
Rosselia ichnofabrics from the Lower Ordovician of the Alborz Mountains (northern Iran): palaeoecology, palaeobiology and sedimentology	6
Late Early to late Middle Pleistocene medium-sized deer from the Italian Peninsula: implications for taxonomy and biochronology	6
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	6
The non-apodiform Strisores (potoos, nightjars and allied birds) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze	6
Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): A preliminary report	5
Diversity patterns of Middle Permian gastropod assemblages from the Tak Fa Formation, Central Thailand	5
Correction to: Devonian to Mississippian strata of the Shine Jinst region revisited: Facies development and stratigraphy in southern Mongolia (Gobi Altai Terrane)	5
Middle Miocene trace fossils from the Tenes area (NW Algeria) and their palaeoenvironmental implications	5
Revisiting the Silurian–Lower Devonian spiriferide and spiriferinide brachiopods from the Condroz Inlier and Ardenne Allochthon (Belgium): current data and perspectives	5
Early Cretaceous Equisetites from Slovakia	5
Redescription of the Sanqiaspidae (Galeaspida) from the Lower Devonian of South China and its biostratigraphic significance	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
Plant fossils from the middle Siwalik of eastern Nepal and their climatic and phytogeographic significance	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
The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit	4
Lower and middle Famennian (Upper Devonian) conodont biostratigraphy from Compte section (Central Pyrenees, Spain)	4
Vertebrate microremains from the Late Devonian (Famennian) of western Mongolia	4
Facies, magnetic susceptibility and timing of the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval (Xom Nha Formation, Central Vietnam)	4
Microscale analysis of the fish Knightia eocaena taphonomy: Implication of a preserved microbial community	4
First record of Pliocene (Zanclean to mid Piacenzian) marine deposits on Rhodes (Greece): implications for eastern Mediterranean palaeo(bio)geography	4
The Pliocene Ophisaurus (Anguidae) from Eastern Europe: new records and additions to the history of the genus and its palaeoenvironment	4