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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic continental biostratigraphy — Links to the Standard Global Chronostratigraphic Scale	84
A marattialean fern, Scolecopteris libera n. sp., from the Asselian (Permian) of Inner Mongolia, China	18
Correlating the global Cambrian–Ordovician boundary: Precise comparison of the Xiaoyangqiao section, Dayangcha, North China with the Green Point GSSP section, Newfoundland, Canada	18
An evaluation of biostratigraphic markers across multiple geological sections in the search for the GSSP of the base of the Serpukhovian Stage (Mississippian)	15
Early Cambrian radiolarians and sponge spicules from the Niujiaohe Formation in South China	14
Abnormalities in early Paleozoic trilobites from central and eastern China	12
Early Cambrian organophosphatic brachiopods from the Xinji Formation, at Shuiyu section, Shanxi Province, North China	12
Striking case of convergence — Alleged marine gastropods in Cretaceous Burmese amber are terrestrial cyclophoroids. Comment on Yu et al.	12
Additional thylacocephalans (Arthropoda) from the Lower Triassic (upper Olenekian) Osawa Formation of the South Kitakami Belt, Northeast Japan	11
Palaeocupressinoxylon uniseriale n. gen. n. sp., a gymnospermous wood from the upper Permian of Central Taodonggou, southern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China	11
The bony labyrinth of Platecarpus (Squamata: Mosasauria) and aquatic adaptations in squamate reptiles	11
Record of the Carnian Pluvial Episode in the Polish microflora	11
Sedimentological and paleoecological aspects of the Norian–Rhaetian transition (Late Triassic) in the Xuanhan area of the Sichuan Basin, Southwest China	11
Tsuga seed cones from the late Paleogene of southwestern China and their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental implications	10
Qurliqnoria (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the Upper Miocene of Çorakyerler (Central Anatolia, Turkey) and its biogeographic implications	10
Palaeoenvironmental changes recorded in the palynology and palynofacies of a Late Permian Marker Mudstone (Galilee Basin, Australia)	10
Middle Triassic conodont apparatus architecture revealed by synchrotron X-ray microtomography	10
The circulatory system of Galeaspida (Vertebrata; stem-Gnathostomata) revealed by synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy	10
Southwestern Gondwana’s Permian climate amelioration recorded in coal-bearing deposits of the Moatize sub-basin (Mozambique)	10
First record of marine gastropods (wentletraps) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber	9
Palynoflora from intertrappean localities in southeastern part of Deccan volcanic province: taxonomic composition, age and paleogeographic implications	9
New insights on the palaeobiology and biostratigraphy of the acritarch Trachyhystrichosphaera aimika: A potential late Mesoproterozoic to Tonian index fossil	9
Changhsingian (Late Permian) foraminifers from the topmost part of the Xiala Formation in the Tsochen area, central Lhasa Block, Tibet and their geological implications	9
Fulu biota, a new exceptionally-preserved Cambrian fossil assemblage from the Longha Formation in southeastern Yunnan	8
A new form of wapiti Cervus canadensis Erxleben, 1777 (Cervidae, Mammalia) from the Late Pleistocene of France	8

Dickinsonia from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China	8
Provenance of the Hangu Formation, Lesser Himalaya, Pakistan: Insight from the detrital zircon U-Pb dating and spinel geochemistry	8
Middle–Late Ordovician chitinozoans from Songliang of Qiaojia, western South China, and their biostratigraphic implications	8
Multidisciplinary study of the Mechetlino Quarry section (Southern Urals, Russia) — The GSSP candidate for the base of the Kungurian Stage (Lower Permian)	8
Gondolelloid multielement conodont apparatus (Scythogondolella) from the Lower Triassic of Jiangsu, East China, revealed by high-resolution X-ray microtomography	8
Revision of Chunerpeton tianyiense (Lissamphibia, Caudata): Is it a cryptobranchid salamander?	8
Watsonella crosbyi from the lower Cambrian (Terreneuvian, Stage 2) Yanjiahe Formation in Three Gorges Area, South China	8
New fossils of Eucladoceros boulei (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from Early Pleistocene Nihewan Beds, China	8
Middle Miocene Cephalotaxus (Taxaceae) from Yunnan, Southwest China, and its implications to taxonomy and evolution of the genus	8
Early Permian radiolarians from Southern Thailand, the deglaciation of Gondwana and the age of the basal Ratburi Group	7
High resolution XCT scanning reveals complex morphology of gnathal elements in an Early Devonian arthrodire	7
Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy of the Willara Formation in the Canning Basin, Western Australia	7
The latest Ordovician Hirnantia brachiopod fauna of Myanmar: Significance of new data from the Mandalay Region	7
Main biotic and climatic events in Early Permian of the Western Urals, Russia, as exemplified by the shallow-water biota of the early Kungurian lagoons	7
Wildfires in the Early Triassic of northeastern Pangaea: Evidence from fossil charcoal in the Bogda Mountains, northwestern China	7
Reinvestigation of conchostracans (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from the Permian–Triassic transition in Southwest China	7
Refining the termination age of the Cryogenian Sturtian glaciation in South China	7
Conodont biostratigraphy and carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of the Middle to Upper Ordovician on the western Yangtze Platform, South China	7
Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Bowers back-arc basin, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica — A review	6
Giant cordaitalean trees in early Permian riparian canopies in North China: Evidence from anatomically preserved trunks in Yangquan, Shanxi Province	6
Sauropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation of Yunnan Province and the pre-Cretaceous sauropodomorph trackways from China	6
The first fossil Petaurista (Mammalia: Sciuridae) from the Russian Far East and its paleogeographic significance	6
Age constraints of the Hungshihyen Formation (Early to Middle Ordovician) on the western margin of the Yangtze Platform, South China: New insights from chitinozoans	6
New latest Coniacian to middle Campanian foraminiferal data from the lower Zongshan Formation in the Chaqiela section, Gamba, southern Tibet	6
Stromatolite-dominated microbialites at the Permian–Triassic boundary of the Xikou section on South Qinling Block, China	6
Discovery of charophyte flora across the Cretaceous–Paleocene transition in the Jiaolai Basin	6
Diverse radial symmetry among the Cambrian Fortunian fossil embryos from northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi provinces, South China	6
New materials of Cisuralian (early Permian) radiolarians from western Cambodia: Paleobiogeographic implications in the Paleotethys	6
Beetle or roach: systematic position of the enigmatic Umenocoleidae based on new material from Zhonggou Formation in Jiuquan, Northwest China, and a morphocladistic analysis	6
Biostratigraphy and important biotic events in the Western Verkhoyansk Region around the Sakmarian–Artinskian boundary	6
First fossil record of Canarium (Burseraceae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, southeastern China and its paleoecological implications	6
Palynofacies analysis for interpreting paleoenvironment and hydrocarbon potential of Triassic–Jurassic strata in the Sichuan Basin, China	5
A new specimen of Yunguisaurus (Reptilia; Sauropterygia) from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) Zhuganpo Member, Falang Formation, Guizhou, China and the restudy of Dingxiaosaurus	5
Nonmarine ostracodes at the Permian–Triassic boundary of the central part of the East European Platform	5
Taphonomic signatures on modern molluscs and corals from Red Sea coast, southern Saudi Arabia	5
A latest Ordovician Hirnantia brachiopod fauna from western Yunnan, Southwest China and its paleobiogeographic significance	5
Flora of the Kazanian–Urzhumian boundary in the middle Permian of the Russian Platform	5
Tubular microfossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) are not early animals	5
A new extinct ochotonid genus from the late Pleistocene of the Russian Far East	5
Pliocene Albizia (Fabaceae) from Jharkhand, eastern India: reappraisal of its biogeography during the Cenozoic in Southeast Asia	5
Organic walled microfossils from the Neoproterozoic Owk Shale, Kurnool Group, South India	5
Response of Carnian Pluvial Episode evidenced by organic carbon isotopic excursions from western Hubei, South China	5
Permian and Triassic radiolarians from chert breccia in the Nong Prue area, western Thailand: its origin and depositional setting in the Paleotethys	5
A whole-plant monocot from the Lower Cretaceous	5
A new possible bivalve burrow Oblongichnus solodukhoi from the late Kazanian (middle Permian) stratotype section in Russia	5
The Paleogene atmospheric CO2 concentrations reconstructed using stomatal analysis of fossil Metasequoia needles	5
Sedimentary facies and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Oligocene larger-benthic-foraminifera-dominated Qom Formation in the northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway	4
Toward a unified and refined Ordovician stratigraphy for the western Yangtze region, South China	4
Cellular preservation of excysting developmental stages of new eukaryotes from the early Ediacaran Weng’an Biota	4
Paleosols and host rocks from the Middle–Upper Permian reference section of the Kazan Volga region, Russia: A case study	4

Anatomy of Stigmaria asiatica Jongmans et Gothan from the Asselian (lowermost Permian) of Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, North China	4
A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah	4
Latest Ordovician graptolites from the Mandalay Region, Myanmar	4
Sinoceras chinense (Foord, 1888) in western Thailand: first identification outside China	4
Trace fossils from the Lower Triassic of North China — a potential signature of the gradual recovery of a terrestrial ecosystem	4
The Upper Devonian tetrapodomorph Gogonasus andrewsae from Western Australia: Reconstruction of the shoulder girdle and opercular series using X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography	4
The filter-feeders signal: response of ostracods to marine environmental changes in the Devonian F–F event	4
Sedimentary response to sea level and climate changes in the inner sea of Maldives carbonate platform over the past 30 kyr	4
Pleuromeia discovered from the Middle Triassic Linjia Formation of Benxi, Northeast China	4
Conodont biostratigraphy of Upper Devonian–Lower Carboniferous deposits in eastern Alborz (Mighan section), North Iran	4
Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Pliocene fan-delta system of the Vera Basin (SE Spain): Fossil assemblages, ichnology and taphonomy	4
Survival of early Viséan foraminifers in the Western Meseta of Morocco	4
Tectonic regime transition of the western South China Block in early Cambrian: Evidence from the Meishucun volcanic ash beds	4
Benthic primary producers in exceptionally preserved Cambrian biotas of North China	4