OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palaeoworld 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Watsonella crosbyi from the lower Cambrian (Terreneuvian, Stage 2) Yanjiahe Formation in Three Gorges Area, South China	19
Abnormalities in early Paleozoic trilobites from central and eastern China	18
Gondolelloid multielement conodont apparatus (Scythogondolella) from the Lower Triassic of Jiangsu, East China, revealed by high-resolution X-ray microtomography	13
Middle–Late Ordovician chitinozoans from Songliang of Qiaojia, western South China, and their biostratigraphic implications	13
Record of the Carnian Pluvial Episode in the Polish microflora	12
Dickinsonia from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China	11
Revision of Chunerpeton tianyiense (Lissamphibia, Caudata): Is it a cryptobranchid salamander?	11
Vegetation history with implication of climate changes and human impacts over the last 9000 years in the Lake Nanyi area, Anhui Province, East China	11
Evidence of recurrent wildfire from the Permian coal deposits of India: Petrographic, scanning electron microscopic and palynological analyses of fossil charcoal	10
Response of Carnian Pluvial Episode evidenced by organic carbon isotopic excursions from western Hubei, South China	10
A new form of wapiti Cervus canadensis Erxleben, 1777 (Cervidae, Mammalia) from the Late Pleistocene of France	10
Provenance of the Hangu Formation, Lesser Himalaya, Pakistan: Insight from the detrital zircon U-Pb dating and spinel geochemistry	9
Wildfires in the Early Triassic of northeastern Pangaea: Evidence from fossil charcoal in the Bogda Mountains, northwestern China	9
Beetle or roach: systematic position of the enigmatic Umenocoleidae based on new material from Zhonggou Formation in Jiuquan, Northwest China, and a morphocladistic analysis	9
Toward a unified and refined Ordovician stratigraphy for the western Yangtze region, South China	9
Palynofacies analysis for interpreting paleoenvironment and hydrocarbon potential of Triassic–Jurassic strata in the Sichuan Basin, China	8
Conodont biostratigraphy and carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of the Middle to Upper Ordovician on the western Yangtze Platform, South China	8
A new study of Olenekian–Anisian boundary conodont biostratigraphy of the Tulong section in Himalaya Terrane, southern Tibet	8
Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy of the Willara Formation in the Canning Basin, Western Australia	8
Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Pliocene fan-delta system of the Vera Basin (SE Spain): Fossil assemblages, ichnology and taphonomy	8
Evolution of tooth crown shape in Mesozoic birds, and its adaptive significance with respect to diet	8
Sinoceras chinense (Foord, 1888) in western Thailand: first identification outside China	7
The Paleogene atmospheric CO2 concentrations reconstructed using stomatal analysis of fossil Metasequoia needles	7
Oceanic redox evolution across the end-Permian mass extinction at Penglaitan section, South China	7
Discovery of charophyte flora across the Cretaceous–Paleocene transition in the Jiaolai Basin	7

A whole-plant monocot from the Lower Cretaceous	7
First fossil record of Canarium (Burseraceae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, southeastern China and its paleoecological implications	7
Radiolaria and planktonic foraminifera from Sarama composite section of the Kannaviou Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous, Cyprus)	6
Benthic primary producers in exceptionally preserved Cambrian biotas of North China	6
Sequence stratigraphy of the Paleocene succession in the Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt: insights from microplankton biostratigraphy and benthic foraminifer paleoenvironments	6
Dinoturbation in Upper Jurassic siliciclastic levels at Cabo Mondego (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal): evidences in a fluvial-dominated deltaic succession	6
First record of organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation of the Tumen Group in western Shandong, North China	6
A new species of winged fruits of Podopterus (Caryophyllales, Polygonaceae) from the Miocene amber, Chiapas, Mexico	6
Sedimentary facies and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Oligocene larger-benthic-foraminifera-dominated Qom Formation in the northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway	6
Permian and Triassic radiolarians from chert breccia in the Nong Prue area, western Thailand: its origin and depositional setting in the Paleotethys	6
A remarkable new fossil species of Amplectister with peculiar hindleg modifications (Coleoptera: Histeridae): further evidence for myrmecophily in Cretaceous clown beetles	6
The effect of character and outgroup choice on the phylogenetic position of the Jurassic dinosaur Chilesaurus diegosaurezi	6
Taphonomic signatures on modern molluscs and corals from Red Sea coast, southern Saudi Arabia	6
Tectonic regime transition of the western South China Block in early Cambrian: Evidence from the Meishucun volcanic ash beds	6
Middle Jurassic radiolarians from Jinlang, Zedong, southern Xizang (Tibet), China	6
Short-term climate and vegetation dynamics in Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) during early Eocene	6
Sauropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation of Yunnan Province and the pre-Cretaceous sauropodomorph trackways from China	6
Pliocene Albizia (Fabaceae) from Jharkhand, eastern India: reappraisal of its biogeography during the Cenozoic in Southeast Asia	6
Cambrian (Series 2 to Miaolingian) platform facies from central Sonora, Mexico and the regional correlation	5
Conodont biostratigraphy of Upper Devonian–Lower Carboniferous deposits in eastern Alborz (Mighan section), North Iran	5
A Maeotian (Late Miocene) freshwater fish-fauna from Romania	5
Miocene pinhole borer ambrosia beetles: new species of Diapus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae)	5
Microfossils from the Krol ‘A’ of the Lesser Himalaya, India: Additional supporting data for its early Ediacaran age	5
Ordovician conodonts from the Ban Tha Kradan area, western Thailand	5
Lowermost occurrence of ostracod Cypridea species in East Asia and implications for the non-marine Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary	5
Famennian conodonts from the Hongguleleng Formation at the Bulongguoer stratotype section, western Junggar, Northwest China	5
Two new chrysidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae, Chrysididae) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	5
Trace fossils from lower Cambrian Hongjingshao Formation, Yunnan, China: Taxonomy, palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment	5
The oldest giant lacewings (Neuroptera: Kalligrammatidae) from the Lower Jurassic of Germany	5
Skeletal variation in the early clathrodictyid stromatoporoids of Upper Ordovician and its paleoecological and phylogenetic implications	5
A new extinct ochotonid genus from the late Pleistocene of the Russian Far East	5
Geochemical characteristics of the Chang 7 Member in the southwestern Ordos Basin, China: the influence of sedimentary environment on the organic matter enrichment	5
Chuaria Walcott from the early Cambrian Qingjiang biota: a taxon persisted for billions of years	5
Flower inclusions of Canarium (Burseraceae) from Miocene Zhangpu amber (China)	5
Graptolithina from the Guole Biota (Furongian, upper Cambrian) of South China	5
Eocene nannofossils and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Kuldana Formation in Yadgar area, Muzaffarabad, northern Pakistan	5
Foraminiferal biozonation, biostratigraphy and trans-basinal correlation of the Oligo-Miocene Qom Formation, Iran (northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway)	5
Trace fossils from the Lower Triassic of North China — a potential signature of the gradual recovery of a terrestrial ecosystem	5
Anatomically preserved cordaitalean trees from the Pennsylvanian of Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, and their implication for a perhumid climate in North China Block	5
Anatomy of Stigmaria asiatica Jongmans et Gothan from the Asselian (lowermost Permian) of Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, North China	5
The first fossil Parascleroderma (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae): a new species in mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	4
Sedimentary response to sea level and climate changes in the inner sea of Maldives carbonate platform over the past 30 kyr	4
Fossil involucres of Ostrya (Betulaceae) from the early Oligocene of Yunnan and their biogeographic implications	4
The middle–late Tournaisian crisis in conodont diversity: a comparison between Northeast Laurussia and Northeast Siberia	4
The succession of the mid-Bashkirian ammonoids Cancelloceras and Gastrioceras in North China	4
A Miocene flora from the Toupi Formation in Jiangxi Province, southeastern China	4
An upright psaroniaceous stump and two surrounding pecopteroids from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora	4
New dustywings (Insecta: Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae) from the Miocene Zhangpu amber	4
Cretaceous climate variations indicated by palynoflora in South China	4
Quantitative paleoecology of Cambrian (Series 2–Miaolingian) communities from central Sonora, Mexico	4

Convergent evolution of encrusting calcareous tubeworms	4
Macroscopic fossil charcoals as proxy of a local fire linked to conifer-rich forest from the late Pliocene of northwestern Yunnan, Southwest China	4
A new fossil Cedrus species from the early Miocene of northwestern Turkey and its possible affinities	4
Discovery of Iliestheria (Crustacea: spinicaudatan) from the Lower Jurassic Sangonghe Formation in Junggar Basin, northwestern China	4
Comments on “Larger benthic foraminiferal assemblages and their response to Middle Eocene Climate Optimum in the Kohat Basin (Pakistan, eastern Tethys)” by Kamran et al.	4
A new early Cambrian bivalved euarthropod from Yunnan, China and general interspecific morphological and size variations in Cambrian hymenocarines	4
Pleuromeia discovered from the Middle Triassic Linjia Formation of Benxi, Northeast China	4
Larger benthic foraminiferal assemblages and their response to Middle Eocene Climate Optimum in the Kohat Basin (Pakistan, eastern Tethys)	4
Osteomyelitis in the manus of Smilodon populator (Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Late Pleistocene of South America	4
Organic-walled microfossils from Cambrian Stage IV in the Jiaobang section, eastern Guizhou, China	4
Radula heinrichsii (Radulaceae, Porellales), a leafy liverwort from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar	4
The evolutionary relationships of the earliest known cycloneuralians and a new record from the Cambrian Fortunian of South China	4
Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous palynology of the CSDP-2 Borehole in the southern Yellow Sea, China	4
Deep-water trace fossils in the Ilfjellet rift basin (Middle Ordovician), central Norwegian Caledonides	4
A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah	4