OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palaeontologia Electronica is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Pleistocene record of mammals and pollen from Mexico (Las Tazas, Valsequillo, Puebla) and their paleoenvironmental interpretation	8
Unravelling the origin of the brown hyena (Parahyena brunnea) and its evolutionary and paleoecological implications for the Pachycrocuta lineage	6
Report from the 8th Symposium on Fossil Decapod Crustaceans, Zaragoza (Spain), June 2022	5
Ovummuridae (calcareous microfossils) from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Shropshire, UK	5
New look at Concavicaris woodfordi (Euarthropoda: Pancrustacea?) using micro-computed tomography	3
Morphospace dynamics and intraspecies variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis according to recent and fossil data	3
A fossil locality predictive model using weighted suitability analysis for the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA	3
Approaching the Khersonian Crisis: Fish otoliths from the upper Bessarabian (middle Sarmatian s.l.; Late Miocene) of Jurkine (Kerch Peninsula, Crimea)	3
Diverse endobiotic symbiont fauna from the late Katian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia	2
Geographic, taxonomic and temporal interrogation of bradoriid diversity and carapace disparity	2
Wear-dependent molar morphology in hypsodont rodents: The case of the spalacine Pliospalax	2
Cells and soft tissues in fossil bone: A review of preservation mechanisms, with corrections of misconceptions	2
Flatbed scanners as versatile tools for studying surface details of compression fossils	2
Unveiling the histology and anatomy of the lungfish Chaoceratodus portezuelensis (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) from the Portezuelo and Cerro Lisandro formations (Upper Cretaceous) of Argentine Patagonia	2
Were terror birds the apex continental predators of Antarctica? New findings in the early Eocene of Seymour Island	2
Late Oligocene decapod crustaceans from the Trbovlje Formation of Slovenia, with a description of two new species of hymenosomatid crabs	2
The first record of Lower Cretaceous otoliths from the Kimigahama Formation (Barremian) of the Choshi Group, Chiba Prefecture, Japan	2
A new giraffid Bramiscus micros nov. gen. nov. sp. (Ruminantia, Giraffidae) from the Miocene of northern Pakistan	2
Forelimb motion and orientation in the ornithischian dinosaurs Styracosaurus and Thescelosaurus, and its implications for locomotion and other behavior	1
Diversity of culicomorphan dipterans in the Eocene Kishenehn Konservat-Lagerstätte (Montana, USA) and its palaeoecological implications	1
Drishti and Amira – different visualizations exemplified by the early Cambrian Chengjiang arthropod Leanchoilia illecebrosa from China	1
Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna	1
Amateur collectors are critical to the study of fossil vertebrates: A case study from two Neogene localities in Northern California (Santa Margarita and Purisima formations)	1
A Miocene cetacean vertebra showing a partially healed longitudinal shear-compression fracture, possibly the result of domoic acid toxicity or failed predation	1
Twenty-five well-justified fossil calibrations for primate divergences	1

Diversity and fossil record of larvae of three groups of lacewings with unusual ecology and functional morphology: Ithonidae, Coniopterygidae and Sisyridae	1
Trilobite moulting behaviour variability had little association with body proportions	1
Identifying tooth position of isolated teeth of sparassodonts (Mammalia: Metatheria) using geometric morphometrics	1
Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Graham Formation, Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) at Lost Creek Lake, Texas, USA	1
Comparison of Miocene to early Pleistocene-aged Castor californicus (Rodentia: Castoridae) to extant beavers and implications for the evolution of Castor in North America	1
Estimating the endocranial volume and body mass of Anteosaurus, Jonkeria, and Moschops (Dinocephalia, Therapsida) using 3D sculpting	1
Outline analysis as a new method for investigating development in fossil crabs	1
Unique fossils of caddisfly larvae from Baltic amber and in situ amber formation in aquatic ecosystems	1
An overview of crawling water beetle larvae and a first possible record from 100-million-years-old Myanmar amber	1
The long and icy journey of Mesozoic marine reptile vertebrae from northern Germany, their provenance and internal structures	1
Redescription of soft tissue preservation in the holotype of Scaphognathus crassirostris (Goldfuß, 1831) using reflectance transformation imaging	1
Dental ecomorphology and macroevolutionary patterns of North American Late Cretaceous metatherians	1
Resurrecting the taxon Diatryma: A review of the giant flightless Eocene Gastornithiformes (Aves), with a report of the first skull of Diatryma	1
Shell anatomy and intraspecific variability of the Spanish Lutetian podocnemidid turtle Neochelys zamorensis	1
Morphological insights into the lobster genus Uncina Quenstedt, 1851 based on new material from the Ya Ha Tinda Konservat-Lagerstätte, Canada (Early Jurassic)	1
A large coelacanth, †Whiteia giganteus sp. nov., from the Triassic of Texas, USA, establishes a Pangean radiation of early Mesozoic actinistians	1
A Miocene ant species of the genus Forelius Emery, 1888 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Mexico	1
First record of an Eomysticetidae from the Late Oligocene at the Pilon locality, San Gregorio Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico	1
A reinterpretation and taxonomic revision of Ultrastenos willisi Stein, Hand and Archer, 2016, a short-snouted mekosuchine crocodylian from the Oligocene of northern Australia	1
A reappraisal of the cranial and mandibular osteology of the spinosaurid Irritator challengeri (Dinosauria: Theropoda)	1
A vanished ecosystem: Sophora microphylla (Kōwhai) dominated forest recorded in mid-late Holocene rock shelters in Central Otago, New Zealand	1
Leaf trait data of two Miocene floras from eastern China and its palaeoclimate implications	0
Comparative assessment of outline-based vs. virtual modeling-based methods to analyze the ammonoid whorl profile	0
The Middle Devonian acanthodian Orcadacanthus n. gen. from the Orcadian Basin of Scotland	0
A new genus and species of fossil pseudoscorpion (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) from the Eocene amber of Western India	0
Temperate to tropical palaeoclimates on the northwest margin of Europe during the middle Cenozoic	0
Insights on the evolution of the tribe Pliomyini (Arvicolinae, Rodentia): Ancient DNA from the extinct Pliomys lenki	0
A reconsideration of the palinuroid family Synaxidae (Crustacea, Decapoda), with a new member from the Upper Jurassic of southern Poland	0
Taxonomic revision of the extinct clawed lobster genus Oncopareia Bosquet, 1854 (Decapoda, Astacidea, Nephropidae)	0
A new goniopholidid crocodylomorph from the Late Jurassic of Portugal	0
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the graptolite assemblage in the linnaei Biozone (Silurian, lowermost Telychian) at Želkovice, Prague Synform (Czech Republic)	0
A new diplodocine sauropod from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA	0
First report of rodents from the Miocene Siwalik locality of Dunera, Pathankot District, Punjab, India	0
The first cranium of Axestemys infernalis (Testudines: Trionychidae) from the Lance Formation of Wyoming, USA; an updated description and phylogenetic analysis	0
Fossil snakes of the Penny Creek Local Fauna from Webster County, Nebraska, USA, and the first record of snakes from the Early Clarendonian (12.5-12 Ma) of North America	0
Fossil moles from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee): Implications for diversification and evolution of North American Talpidae	0
Ethological interpretation of making the pellet designs by the bubbler crab Dotilla on the modern intertidal beaches: A study from the Bay of Bengal coast, Eastern India	0
Pinniped (Mammalia: Carnivora) fossils from Black Rock, a new late Neogene vertebrate locality in Victoria, Australia	0
A novel distance that reduces information loss in continuous characters with few observations	0
The rostral neurovascular system of Tyrannosaurus rex	0
The anatomy and diversity of the pterosaurian sternum	0
An early Cambrian pelago-benthic acorn worm and the origin of the hemichordate larva	0
New Neogene anourosoricin shrews from northern Asia	0
Rogueus belgodereae, a new raninoid crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Raninoidea) from the Upper Palaeocene (Thanetian) of Southern France, with comments on early palaeocene decapod crustacean faunules	0
A multicarpellate fruit from Late Cretaceous sediments of South Bohemia, Czech Republic	0
Stable isotope (ẟ13C, ẟ18O) paleoecology of the late Early Miocene mammalian fauna from Buluk, Kenya	0
A feeding organ the basihyal and thyrohyal tells which size of prey do true baleen whales (Cetacea, Chaeomysticeti) eat	0
First occurrence of a †coccolepidid fish (?Chondrostei: †Coccolepididae) from the Upper Lias (Toarcian, Early Jurassic) of southern Germany	0
Two exceptional Balaenomorpha (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Biemenhorst Subformation (middle/late Miocene) of Bocholt (W Münsterland, Germany) with a critical appraisal on the anatomy of the periotic	0
Underwater drunken forest: Changes in growth direction and ornamentation in Conularia fragilis Barrande, 1867 (Lower Devonian, Czech Republic)	0

Achieving kinematic identity across shape diversity in musculoskeletal modeling	0
First fossil snake from McFaddin Beach, Texas, USA	0
Noninvasive elemental XRF characterization of mudstone lagerstätten for provenance identification: Advantages and limitations	0
Biostratigraphy and biochronology of late Cenozoic North American rodent assemblages	0
Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Miocene of Fălciu (Eastern Romania)	0
New remains of Liopleurodon (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Middle Jurassic of western France and paedomorphosis within pliosaurids	0
New insights on the anatomy, paleobiology, and biostratigraphy of Xenungulata (Mammalia) from the Paleogene of South America	0
An intriguing new species of dabbling duck (Aves: Anseriformes) from the middle Miocene of Austria	0
Continuous character variation within the Glossopleura-Anoria-Sonoraspis plexus: Dolichometopid trilobites from the Cadiz Formation (Cambrian: Miaolingian, Wuliuan), California	0
A new approach to the systematics of Laeviprosopon (Brachyura: Homolidae), with remarks on molting process of the early brachyurans	0
Comparison of methods: Micro-CT visualization method and epoxy cast-embedding reveal hidden details of bioerosion in the tube walls of Cretaceous polychaete worms	0
Miocene decapod crustacean faunas from Cyprus – Part 1. Geographical-stratigraphical setting and Anomura	0
Putative Ordovician green alga Krejciella reinterpreted as enteropneust hemichordate tube (Czech Republic)	0
Mammoths, molecules and morphology: A case study in ancient speciation	0
A new euarthropod with large frontal appendages from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota	0
Numerical taxonomy and genus-species identification of Czekanowskiales in China based on machine learning	0
Oldest record of Alligator in southeastern North America	0
Bioerosion traces on the Campanian turtle remains: New data from the lagoonal deposits of the Quseir Formation, Kharga Oasis, Egypt	0
Late Pleistocene and Holocene pikas (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) from Europe and the validity of Ochotona spelaea: New insights based on mtDNA analysis	0
Diversification events of the shield morphology in shore crabs and their relatives through development and time	0
Taphonomy of an Eocene micromammal assemblage in a lake-margin depositional setting elucidates an ancient food web	0
Postcranial anatomy of the Spanish Upper Triassic sauropterygian Paludidraco multidentatus (Simosauridae)	0
Petrodactyle wellnhoferi gen. et sp. nov.: A new and large ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Germany	0
Internal anatomy of a brachyuran crab from a Late Cretaceous methane seep and an overview of internal soft tissues in fossil decapod crustaceans	0
Body mass divergence in sympatric deer species of Pleistocene Crete (Greece)	0
New primates from the Eocene of Saskatchewan, Canada: Revision of the primates from the Cypress Hills Formation with description of new taxa	0
Termite activity in the mid-Cretaceous of Australia	0
New species and evolution of the foraminiferal family Janischewskinidae in the middle–upper Mississippian of South China	0
Pygocephalomorphan crustaceans further emphasise the similarities between the Carboniferous Piesberg quarry in Germany and the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte in North America	0
Linking burrow morphology to the behaviors of predatory soil arthropods: Applications to continental ichnofossils	0
White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae)	0
Middle Eocene cartilaginous fishes (Vertebrata: Chondrichthyes) of the Dnieper–Donets Basin, northern Ukraine	0
A novel feeding mechanism of diplodocid sauropods revealed in an Apatosaurine skull from the Upper Jurassic Nail Quarry (Morrison Formation) at Como Bluff, Wyoming, USA	0
A reassessment on Luchibang xingzhe: A still valid istiodactylid pterosaur within a chimera	0
On the “screamer-like” birds from the British London Clay: An archaic anseriform-galliform mosaic and a non-galloanserine “barb-necked” species of Perplexicervix	0
A partial skeleton of “Mammut” borsoni (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Kaltensundheim (Germany)	0
Proboscidea from Miocene strata of the Texas Coastal Plain with a reappraisal of the biochronology of the Fleming Group	0
The intriguing shapes of the ammonoid whorl	0
Amakusaichthys benammii sp. nov., a Campanian long-nose ichthyodectiform fish from the Tzimol Quarry, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico	0
A pterosaurian connecting link from the Late Jurassic of Germany	0
The earliest fossil evidence of spiny feather (pinnate-leaved) palms from the K-Pg of Gondwana	0
Geographic and temporal variability in Pleistocene lion-like felids: Implications for their evolution and taxonomy	0
Accurate specimen digitization through glass achieved and validated using 3D surface scanning	0
One or two species? Revision of fossil martens from the late Early Pleistocene sites Deutsch Altenburg 2 and 4 (Austria)	0
Differentiating convergent pathologies in turtle shells using computed tomographic scanning of modern and fossil bone	0
Symbiosis in corals and stromatoporoids from the Silurian of Baltica	0
Life on a Miocene barrier reef – fish communities and environments in the Medobory backreef	0
Chuandianella ovata: An early Cambrian stem euarthropod with feather-like appendages	0
Miocene and Pliocene amphibians from Hambach (Germany): new evidence for a late Neogene refuge in northwestern Europe	0
Description of contents of unopened bamboo corsets and crates from Quarry Ig/WJ of the Tendaguru locality (Late Jurassic, Tanzania, East Africa) as revealed by medical CT data and the potential of thi	0
Fossil calibrations for molecular analyses and divergence time estimation for true crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura)	0
Spider crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea) from the upper Eocene of south Pyrenees (Huesca, Spain)	0
Feeding strategies of circum‑Mediterranean hipparionins during the late Miocene: Exploring dietary preferences related to size through dental microwear analysis	0
Cranial anatomy of Indohyus indirae (Raoellidae), an artiodactyl from the Eocene of India, and its implications for raoellid biology	0
New records of Bennettitales and associated flora from the Jurassic of the Cualac Formation, Mexico	0
BoneProfileR: The next step to quantify, model, and statistically compare bone section compactness profiles	0
The challenge of hard-to-reach spaces in mechanical fossil preparation: Development of the Wada air scribe, a novel short-bodied air scribe with an adjustable handle	0
A Pliocene goodeid fish of the Paleolake Amajac, Sanctórum, Hidalgo, Mexico	0
Anchitheriomys buceei (Rodentia, Castoridae) from the Miocene of Texas and a review of the Miocene beavers from the Texas Coastal Plain, USA	0
Bayesian inference reveals a complex evolutionary history of belemnites	0
A fragmentary leptonectid ichthyosaurian from the lower Pliensbachian of Luxembourg	0
Diptera of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation II	0
Further trimming down the marine heavyweights: Perucetus colossus did not come close to, much less exceed, the tonnage of blue whales, and the latter are not ultra-sized either	0
Reconstructing Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira): A new look for an iconic Devonian predator	0
Morphometric investigation of Tribrachidium from Nilpena Ediacara National Park, South Australia	0
Simulating our ability to accurately detect abrupt changes in assemblage-based paleoenvironmental proxies	0
The body impression of a new genus and species of cymothoid isopod (Cymothoidae, Crustacea) preserved in a vertebrate coprolite from the Atlantic Coastal Plain (Miocene, Chesapeake Group) of Virginia,	0
Towards sustainable treatments to preserve fossils from weathering, as part of the garden redevelopment project at the Natural History Museum	0
Designing scientifically-grounded paleoart for augmented reality at La Brea Tar Pits	0
Reassessing floral diversity at Río Pichileufú, earliest middle Eocene of Río Negro, Argentina	0
Teganium (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from the Middle Ordovician Castle Bank fauna of Avalonia (Wales, UK)	0
Phylogeny of iguanodontian dinosaurs and the evolution of quadrupedality	0
A taxonomic revision of the Cenomanian bothremydid turtle Algorachelus parva from Israel and morphological variation within its genus	0
A new name for old bones: A reassessment of Early Jurassic theropod remains from Dorset, England	0
Paleoecology and taphonomy of spatangoid echinoid-produced burrows (Scolicia) in slope and basin floor deposits from the Eocene of Cuba	0
A revision of “Trinitichelys” maini (Testudinata: Baenidae) and additional material of its new genus from the Lewisville Formation (Woodbine Group, Cenomanian), Texas, USA	0
An Early Cretaceous Sphenophyllum or a hatchling turtle?	0