Papers in Palaeontology

Papers
(The median citation count of Papers in Palaeontology is 1. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
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A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil23
Evolutionary pattern ofMetacaremysgen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America21
Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from North Greenland: new light on metazoan diversity in early Cambrian shelf environments18
Elemgasem nubilus: a new brachyrostran abelisaurid (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina16
New and revised small shelly fossil record from the lower Cambrian of northern Iran16
New information on the Jurassic lepidosauromorph Marmoretta oxoniensis16
Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of western USA and India15
A unique hybodontiform skeleton provides novel insights into Mesozoic chondrichthyan life14
Rosselichnidae ifam. nov.: burrows with concentric, spiral or eccentric lamination13
An early‐diverging procolophonid from the lowermost Triassic of South America and the origins of herbivory in Procolophonoidea12
The first Silurian trilobite with three‐dimensionally preserved soft parts reveals novel appendage morphology11
Critical re‐evaluation of Limulidae uncovers limited Limulus diversity10
A Burgess Shale mandibulate arthropod with a pygidium: a case of convergent evolution10
New barklice (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber10
Redescription and phylogenetic affinities of the caimanine Eocaiman cavernensis (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) from the Eocene of Argentina10
The late Oligocene xenarthran fauna of Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza, Argentina) and its implications for sloth origins and the diversity of Palaeogene cingulates9
Extending the footprint record of Pareiasauromorpha to the Cisuralian: earlier appearance and wider palaeobiogeography of the group9
A new species of the Cambrian bivalved euarthropod Pectocaris with axially differentiated enditic armatures9
An unpredicted ancient colonization of the West Indies by North American rodents: dental evidence of a geomorph from the early Oligocene of Puerto Rico9
Postcranial anatomy of the extinct terrestrial slothSimomylodon uccasamamensis(Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano, and its evolutionary implications9
Taxonomical diversity and palaeobiogeographical affinity of belemnites from the Pliensbachian–ToarcianGSSP(Lusitanian Basin, Portugal)8
Taxonomy and diversity of slit‐band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA8
Nasal compartmentalization in Kogiidae (Cetacea, Physeteroidea): insights from a new late Miocene dwarf sperm whale from the Pisco Formation8
Panderodus from the Waukesha Lagerstätte of Wisconsin, USA: a primitive macrophagous vertebrate predator8
First pan‐trionychid turtle (Testudines, Pan‐Trionychidae) from the Palaeogene of Africa8
First non‐amber Mesozoic pseudoscorpion from Upper Triassic deposits of eastern Europe, with a description of two new fossil subfamilies (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Feaellidae)7
The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat‐Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation7
A late Asbian (Mississippian) stratotype for England: Trowbarrow Quarry, Cumbria, UK7
A new lobopodian from the middle Cambrian of Utah: did swimming body flaps convergently evolve in stem‐group arthropods?7
An expanded Smithian–Spathian (Lower Triassic) boundary from a reefal build‐up record in Oman: implications for conodont taxonomy, high‐resolution biochronology and the carbon isotope record7
Not a jaguar after all? Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pleistocene felid Panthera gombaszoegensis7
Microstructural description of the maniraptoran egg Protoceratopsidovum7
Upper Ordovician Thylacocephala (Euarthropoda, Eucrustacea) from Bohemia indicate early ecological differentiation7
A previously missing link in the evolution of dasytine soft‐winged flower beetles from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera, Melyridae)7
A giant phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India with new insights on phytosaur migration, endemism and extinction7
North American Spathian (upper Olenekian, Lower Triassic) neogondolellin conodonts6
The dawn of the flying reptiles: first Triassic record in the southern hemisphere6
A new species of early Cambrian arthropod reconstructed from exceptionally preserved mandibles and associated small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs)6
Machine learning confirms new records of maniraptoran theropods in Middle Jurassic UK microvertebrate faunas6
The middle Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid Arctoceras blomstrandi: conch morphology and ornamentation in relation to stratigraphy6
An early Cambrian mackenziid reveals links to modular Ediacaran macro‐organisms6
Taxonomic and palaeobiological implications of a large, pathological sabretooth (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Lower Pliocene of South Africa6
Morphological disparity in the evolution of the ophthalmosaurid forefin: new clues from the Upper Jurassic of Argentina6
Revision of the pachycormid fish Saurostomus esocinus Agassiz from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of Europe, with new insight into the origins of suspension‐feeding in Pachycormidae6
Phylogeny, disparity and mass extinction response in the trilobite order Harpetida6
A peirosaurid mandible from the Albian–Cenomanian (Lower Cretaceous) of Algeria and the taxonomic content of Hamadasuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Peirosauridae)6
New insights into the affinities, autoecology, and habit of the Mesozoic fernWeichselia reticulatabased on the revision of stems from Bernissart (Mons Basin, Belgium)5
Palynology of a short sequence of the Lower Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation at Cottonwood Canyon (Wyoming): age, depositional environments and plant diversity5
Early adaptations of true flies (Diptera) to moist and aquatic continental environments5
Silurian (late Llandovery – Wenlock) conodont fauna and biostratigraphy from the Yanbian area of Sichuan Province, south‐west China5
The damselfly palaeofauna from the Eocene of Wyoming and Colorado, USA (Insecta, Odonata, Zygoptera)5
Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño5
Two almost‐forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring5
Endemic earliest Lochkovian species ofCaudicriodus(conodont) from southern Laurentia and the Silurian–Devonian boundary5
Eurasian wanderer: an island sabre‐toothed cat (Felidae, Machairodontinae) in the Far East5
An abundant sea anemone from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstӓtte, USA5
Biostratigraphy and taxonomy of Drumian (middle Cambrian) agnostid trilobites of the Manuels River Formation, Avalonian Newfoundland, Canada5
An early Eocene fossil from the British London Clay elucidates the evolutionary history of the enigmatic Archaeotrogonidae (Aves, Strisores)4
Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pliocene cathartiform Dryornis pampeanus Moreno & Mercerat4
Early Jurassic coprolites: insights into palaeobotany and the feeding behaviour of dinosaurs4
Bone‐bearing coprolites from the Upper Triassic of India: ichnotaxonomy, probable producers and predator–prey relationships4
Lophotrochozoa in the Cambrian evolutionary radiation and the Pelagiella problem4
Trilobites of trinucleid, raphiophorid and cyclopygid associations from the Ordovician (Darriwilian – early Katian) of the west Balkhash region and Betpak‐Dala, Central Kazakhstan4
A new Cenomanian acanthomorph fish from the El Chango quarry (Chiapas, south‐eastern Mexico) and its implications for the early diversification and evolutionary trends of acanthopterygians4
A possibly deep branching artiopodan arthropod from the lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (North Greenland)4
Cranial anatomy and systematics of Dendrerpeton cf. helogenes (Tetrapoda, Temnospondyli) from the Pennsylvanian of Joggins, revisited through micro‐CT scanning4
A revision of Vernicomacanthus Miles with comments on the characters of stem‐group chondrichthyans4
Late Cretaceous hydrothermal vent communities from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus: systematics and evolutionary significance4
Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications4
A new vampyromorph species from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône Lagerstätte4
A new gecko (Squamata, Gekkota) from the Eocene of Geiseltal (Germany) implies long‐term persistence of European Sphaerodactylidae4
Tough to digest: first record of Teleosauroidea (Thalattosuchia) in a regurgitalite from the Upper Jurassic of north‐eastern Italy4
Organic‐walled microfossils from the Kistedalen Formation, Norway: acritarch chronostratigraphy of the Baltic Miaolingian and evolutionary trends of placoid acritarchs4
First Eocene–Miocene anuran fossils from Peruvian Amazonia: insights into neotropical frog evolution and diversity3
A phylogenetic approach to the study of the evolution of Hypermecaspididae (Olenida, Trilobita)3
A Hirnantian holdover from the Late Ordovician mass extinction: phylogeny and biogeography of a new anthracocrinid crinoid from Estonia3
A description of the palate and mandible of Youngina capensis (Sauropsida, Diapsida) based on synchrotron tomography, and the phylogenetic implications3
Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina3
The first edrioasteroid echinoderm from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China3
Shedding light on the enigmatic extinct insect order Glosselytrodea: new diversity and key morphological insights into non‐tegmenized Permian forms3
Early eukaryotic microfossils of the late Palaeoproterozoic Limbunya Group, Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia3
Evidence of large terrestrial seymouriamorphs in the lowermost Permian of the Czech Republic3
A unique Late Cretaceous fossil wood assemblage from Chilean Patagonia provides clues to a high‐latitude continental environment3
A new burnetiid from the middle Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships3
Trilobites of Thailand's Cambrian–Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting3
A taxonomic revision and cranial description of Terrestrisuchus gracilis (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Pant‐y‐Ffynnon Quarry (southern Wales)3
The oldest dairoidid crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Parthenopoidea) from the Eocene of Spain3
Bone histology of dinocephalians (Therapsida, Dinocephalia): palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences3
Earliest fossil record of the genus Tetradium (Rutaceae) in Asia: implications for its evolution and palaeoecology3
On the occurrence of rare nannoliths (calcareous nannofossils) in the Early Jurassic and their implications for the end‐Triassic mass extinction3
Bivalves from the Changhsingian (upper Permian) Bellerophon Formation of the Dolomites (Italy): ancestors of Lower Triassic post‐extinction benthic communities3
The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange3
Redefining the Huayquerian Stage (Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene) of the South American chronostratigraphic scale based on biostratigraphical analyses and geochronological dating3
Carboniferous horseshoe crab musculature suggests anatomical conservatism within Xiphosurida3
Multiple occurrences of pathologies suggesting a common and severe bone infection in a population of the Australian Pleistocene giant, Genyornis newtoni (Aves, Dromornithidae)3
Allometry in Late Devonian Podocopa ostracods (Crustacea) and its implications for ostracod ontogeny2
Silurian freshwater arthropod from northwest China2
The last Baru (Crocodylia, Mekosuchinae): a new species of ‘cleaver‐headed crocodile’ from central Australia and the turnover of crocodylians during the Late Miocene in Australia2
Lower Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) graptolites of the generaRastritesandStavrites: systematics, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography2
The early Paleocene (Danian) climate of Svalbard based on palaeobotanical data2
A Miopetaurista (Rodentia, Sciuridae) cranium from the Middle Miocene of Bavaria (Germany) and brain evolution in flying squirrels2
The dental system of †Kazanichthys viatkensis (Actinopterygii, Acrolepididae) from the middle Permian of European Russia: palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences2
First occurrence of Nyssa endocarps and associated fungi in the Oligocene of South China: palaeogeographical and palaeoecological significance2
Cranial remains of Ramsayia magna from the Late Pleistocene of Australia and the evolution of gigantism in wombats (Marsupialia, Vombatidae)2
An unusual shark assemblage from the Ladinian–Carnian interval of South China2
Attenborough's beauty: exceptional pattern preservation in a frog‐legged leaf beetle from the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Sagrinae)2
The oldest Euphasmatodea (Insecta, Phasmatodea): modern morphology in an Early Cretaceous stick insect fossil from the Crato Formation of Brazil2
Burrows provided shelter for tetrapods in a Permo‐Triassic desert2
The Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from the southern Qilian Mountains, north‐western China2
Turtles all the way down: Neogene pig‐nosed turtle fossil from southern Australia reveals cryptic freshwater turtle invasions and extinctions2
Extraordinary Ordovician trilobite Fantasticolithus gen. nov. from Peru and its bearing on the trinucleimorph hypothesis2
A review of the glacial environment arthropod trace fossils Umfolozia and Warvichnium with the description of new ichnotaxa2
A fossil fish assemblage from the middle Miocene of the Cocinetas Basin, northern Colombia2
Adult branchiosaurid temnospondyls: the life cycle of Xerodromeus gracilis2
Comment on: The ichnogenus Lumbricaria Münster from the Upper Jurassic of Germany interpreted as faecal strings of ammonites2
Systematics, ontogeny and palaeobiogeography of the genus Orthacanthus (Diplodoselachidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lower Permian of France2
Evolution of filter‐feeding in aquatic insects dates back to the Middle Triassic: new evidence from stem‐group mayflies (Insecta, Ephemerida) from Grès à Voltzia, Vosges, France2
Pleurotomariida (Gastropoda) from the upper Anisian platform carbonates of the Dolomites (Southern Alps, Italy): systematics, palaeobiogeography and Triassic recovery1
Sclerite assembly, articulation and protective system of Lower Devonian machaeridians1
Benthic pterobranchs from the Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Konservat‐Lagerstätte of Utah1
An enigmatic structure in the tail of vetulicolians from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China1
New insights into the sea spider fauna (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) of La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône, France (Jurassic, Callovian)1
Evolutionary process of extremely twisted heteromorph ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan1
Healed injuries, ontogeny and scleritome construction in a Late Ordovician machaeridian (Annelida, Aphroditiformia)1
A gomphothere (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Quaternary of the Kashmir Valley, India1
The first unique‐headed bug (Hemiptera, Enicocephalomorpha) from Cretaceous Iberian amber, and the Gondwanan connections of its palaeoentomological fauna1
Early detritivory and sedimentivory in insects based on in situ gut contents from Triassic aquatic nymphs1
Evaluating growth in Macrospondylus bollensis (Crocodylomorpha, Teleosauroidea) in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany1
The last horned armadillos: phylogeny and decline of Peltephilidae (Xenarthra, Cingulata)1
The rise and fall of the Iberian cobras (Elapidae, Naja) in the context of their European and global fossil record1
The first belemnite of boreal ancestry from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of the western Tethys: implications for belemnite ecology1
Late Ordovician and early Silurian virgianid and stricklandioid brachiopods from North Greenland: implications for a warm‐water faunal province1
Evolutionary–phylogenetic pathway of the Cretaceous ammonite genusAegocriocerasand its relationship toJuddicerasspp. andCrioceratitesspp.1
Phylogenetic patterns in fossil and living billfishes (Istiophoriformes, Istiophoridae): evidence from the Central Mediterranean1
Palaeoscolecids from the Ludlow Series of Leintwardine, Herefordshire (UK): the latest occurrence of palaeoscolecids in the fossil record1
High diversity of siliceous sponges in Western Tethyan areas during the Eocene: palaeobiogeographical, ecological and taxonomic significance1
Vertebrate predation in the Late Devonian evidenced by bite traces and regurgitations: implications within an early tetrapod freshwater ecosystem1
Rostral and body shape analyses reveal cryptic diversity of Late Jurassic batomorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Europe1
Evidence for the evolutionary history and diversity of fossil sweetgums: leaves and associated capitate reproductive structures of Liquidambar from the Eocene of Hainan Island, South China1
Newly discovered morphology of the Silurian sea spider Haliestes and its implications1
Putative hydroid symbionts recorded by bioclaustrations in fossil molluscan shells: a revision and reinterpretation of the cecidogenus Rodocanalis1
Phylogenetic position of Bohemiacinctus gen. nov. (Echinodermata, Cincta) from the Cambrian of Bohemia: implications for macroevolution and the role of taxon sampling in palaeobiological system1
Three‐dimensional reconstruction of the in situ mode of life of the Cambrian coral Cambroctoconus: asexual reproduction and colony growth in immediate response to cryptic habitats1
Macroflora from Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Hicks Creek, southern Talkeetna Mountains, south‐central Alaska1
Evaluation of the ontogeny and sexual dimorphism in a new species of Middle Triassic Darwinulocopina (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Argentina1
First occurrence of family Clavatoraceae (fossil Charophyta) in the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of France1
Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria)1
Archaeichnium haughtoni: a robust burrow lining from the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition of Namibia1
Late Ordovician (Katian) linguliform microbrachiopods from north‐eastern Yunnan, South China1
A new early water frog (Telmatobius) from the Miocene of the Bolivian Altiplano1
Anatomy, palaeoautecology and phylogenetic affinity of tubular Glossolites magnus from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China1
Morphological–phylogenetic analysis of the late Cenozoic Chlamydini von Teppner (Bivalvia, Pectinidae) of southern South America1
First report of silicified wood from a late Pennsylvanian intramontane basin in the Pyrenees: systematic affinities and palaeoecological implications1
A new remarkably preserved fossil assassin bug (Insecta, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado1
Two new species of small‐bodied pachycephalosaurine (Dinosauria, Marginocephalia) from the uppermost Cretaceous of North America suggest hidden diversity in well‐sampled formations1
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