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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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New exceptionally preserved panarthropods from the Drumian Wheeler Konservat‐Lagerstätte of the House Range of Utah30
Reassessment of historic ‘microsaurs’ from Joggins, Nova Scotia, reveals hidden diversity in the earliest amniote ecosystem18
Evolutionary pattern of Metacaremys gen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America17
The post‐embryonic ontogeny of the early Cambrian trilobite Estaingia bilobata from South Australia: trunk development and phylogenetic implications16
Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from North Greenland: new light on metazoan diversity in early Cambrian shelf environments14
New and revised small shelly fossil record from the lower Cambrian of northern Iran14
Appearances can be deceptive: bizarre shell microanatomy and histology in a new Triassic turtle (Testudinata) from Argentina at the dawn of turtles13
New information on the Jurassic lepidosauromorph Marmoretta oxoniensis13
A unique hybodontiform skeleton provides novel insights into Mesozoic chondrichthyan life13
A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil13
Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of western USA and India12
Conodont faunas across the Kasimovian–Gzhelian boundary (Late Pennsylvanian) in South China and implications for the selection of the stratotype for the base of the global Gzhelian Stage12
Ostracods from the end‐Permian mass extinction in the Aras Valley section (north‐west Iran)11
A new small, mesorostrine inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from four upper Miocene localities in the Pisco Basin, Peru11
Rosselichnidae ifam. nov.: burrows with concentric, spiral or eccentric lamination10
Exceptional avian pellet from the Paleocene of Patagonia and description of its content: a new species of calyptocephalellid (Neobatrachia) anuran10
An early‐diverging procolophonid from the lowermost Triassic of South America and the origins of herbivory in Procolophonoidea10
An Early Devonian actinostelic euphyllophyte with secondary growth from the Emsian of Gaspé (Canada) and the importance of tracheid wall thickening patterns in early euphyllophyte systematics10
Elemgasem nubilus: a new brachyrostran abelisaurid (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina10
Small shelly fossils and carbon isotopes from the early Cambrian (Stages 3–4) Mural Formation of western Laurentia10
Critical re‐evaluation of Limulidae uncovers limited Limulus diversity9
The first Silurian trilobite with three‐dimensionally preserved soft parts reveals novel appendage morphology9
The earliest baleen whale from the Mediterranean: large‐scale implications of an early Miocene thalassotherian mysticete from Piedmont, Italy9
Ontogeny of the trilobite Elrathia kingii (Meek) and comparison of growth rates between Elrathia kingii and Aulacopleura koninckii (Barrande)9
The late Oligocene xenarthran fauna of Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza, Argentina) and its implications for sloth origins and the diversity of Palaeogene cingulates9
Postcranial anatomy of the extinct terrestrial sloth Simomylodon uccasamamensis (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano, and its evolutionary implications9
Extending the footprint record of Pareiasauromorpha to the Cisuralian: earlier appearance and wider palaeobiogeography of the group9
A Burgess Shale mandibulate arthropod with a pygidium: a case of convergent evolution9
New barklice (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber8
An unpredicted ancient colonization of the West Indies by North American rodents: dental evidence of a geomorph from the early Oligocene of Puerto Rico8
Post‐embryonic development of Fritzolenellus suggests the ancestral morphology of the early developmental stages in Trilobita8
Panderodus from the Waukesha Lagerstätte of Wisconsin, USA: a primitive macrophagous vertebrate predator7
A previously missing link in the evolution of dasytine soft‐winged flower beetles from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera, Melyridae)7
A new species of the Cambrian bivalved euarthropod Pectocaris with axially differentiated enditic armatures7
Nasal compartmentalization in Kogiidae (Cetacea, Physeteroidea): insights from a new late Miocene dwarf sperm whale from the Pisco Formation7
Multituberculate mammals from the Middle Jurassic of Western Siberia, Russia, and the origin of Multituberculata7
The ichnogenus Lumbricaria Münster from the Upper Jurassic of Germany interpreted as faecal strings of ammonites7
Tooth replacement in Manidens condorensis: baseline study to address the replacement pattern in dentitions of early ornithischians7
Redescription and phylogenetic affinities of the caimanine Eocaiman cavernensis (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) from the Eocene of Argentina7
First pan‐trionychid turtle (Testudines, Pan‐Trionychidae) from the Palaeogene of Africa7
Upper Ordovician Thylacocephala (Euarthropoda, Eucrustacea) from Bohemia indicate early ecological differentiation6
The dawn of the flying reptiles: first Triassic record in the southern hemisphere6
First non‐amber Mesozoic pseudoscorpion from Upper Triassic deposits of eastern Europe, with a description of two new fossil subfamilies (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Feaellidae)6
A highly pneumatic middle Cretaceous theropod from the British Lower Greensand6
Taxonomical diversity and palaeobiogeographical affinity of belemnites from the Pliensbachian–ToarcianGSSP(Lusitanian Basin, Portugal)6
New insights into the affinities, autoecology, and habit of the Mesozoic fern Weichselia reticulata based on the revision of stems from Bernissart (Mons Basin, Belgium)5
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 record5
Not a jaguar after all? Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pleistocene felid Panthera gombaszoegensis5
Taxonomy and diversity of slit‐band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA5
Burmorussidae, a new family of parasitic wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera) from mid‐Cretaceous Burmese amber5
Machine learning confirms new records of maniraptoran theropods in Middle Jurassic UK microvertebrate faunas5
A giant phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India with new insights on phytosaur migration, endemism and extinction5
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 Pachycormidae5
Upper Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) marine gastropods from the Cleveland Basin, England: systematics, palaeobiogeography and contribution to biotic recovery from the early Toarcian extinction event5
A peirosaurid mandible from the Albian–Cenomanian (Lower Cretaceous) of Algeria and the taxonomic content of Hamadasuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Peirosauridae)5
Morphological disparity in the evolution of the ophthalmosaurid forefin: new clues from the Upper Jurassic of Argentina5
The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat‐Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation5
Phylogeny, disparity and mass extinction response in the trilobite order Harpetida5
Biostratigraphy and taxonomy of Drumian (middle Cambrian) agnostid trilobites of the Manuels River Formation, Avalonian Newfoundland, Canada5
Silurian (late Llandovery – Wenlock) conodont fauna and biostratigraphy from the Yanbian area of Sichuan Province, south‐west China5
A new gecko (Squamata, Gekkota) from the Eocene of Geiseltal (Germany) implies long‐term persistence of European Sphaerodactylidae4
A revision of Vernicomacanthus Miles with comments on the characters of stem‐group chondrichthyans4
The middle Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid Arctoceras blomstrandi: conch morphology and ornamentation in relation to stratigraphy4
An abundant sea anemone from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstӓtte, USA4
Tooth eruption in the Early Cretaceous British mammal Triconodon and description of a new species4
A new species of early Cambrian arthropod reconstructed from exceptionally preserved mandibles and associated small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs)4
Eurasian wanderer: an island sabre‐toothed cat (Felidae, Machairodontinae) in the Far East4
A new vampyromorph species from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône Lagerstätte4
Palynology of a short sequence of the Lower Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation at Cottonwood Canyon (Wyoming): age, depositional environments and plant diversity4
Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pliocene cathartiform Dryornis pampeanus Moreno & Mercerat4
Microstructural description of the maniraptoran egg Protoceratopsidovum4
Lophotrochozoa in the Cambrian evolutionary radiation and the Pelagiella problem4
Early adaptations of true flies (Diptera) to moist and aquatic continental environments4
A late Asbian (Mississippian) stratotype for England: Trowbarrow Quarry, Cumbria, UK4
Organic‐walled microfossils from the Kistedalen Formation, Norway: acritarch chronostratigraphy of the Baltic Miaolingian and evolutionary trends of placoid acritarchs3
Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño3
Ankothrips, the most ancient extant thrips genus (Thysanoptera, Melanthripidae)3
Taxonomic and palaeobiological implications of a large, pathological sabretooth (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Lower Pliocene of South Africa3
Endemic earliest Lochkovian species of Caudicriodus (conodont) from southern Laurentia and the Silurian–Devonian boundary3
A new burnetiid from the middle Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships3
A Hirnantian holdover from the Late Ordovician mass extinction: phylogeny and biogeography of a new anthracocrinid crinoid from Estonia3
The oldest known bovid from China and reappraisal of the Chinese ‘Eotragus3
Trilobites of trinucleid, raphiophorid and cyclopygid associations from the Ordovician (Darriwilian – early Katian) of the west Balkhash region and Betpak‐Dala, Central Kazakhstan3
North American Spathian (upper Olenekian, Lower Triassic) neogondolellin conodonts3
An early Cambrian mackenziid reveals links to modular Ediacaran macro‐organisms3
A new lobopodian from the middle Cambrian of Utah: did swimming body flaps convergently evolve in stem‐group arthropods?3
The oldest dairoidid crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Parthenopoidea) from the Eocene of Spain3
The first fossil Sticholotidini ladybird beetle (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) reveals a transition zone through northern Europe during the Eocene3
A phylogenetic approach to the study of the evolution of Hypermecaspididae (Olenida, Trilobita)3
Trilobites of Thailand's Cambrian–Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting3
An early Eocene fossil from the British London Clay elucidates the evolutionary history of the enigmatic Archaeotrogonidae (Aves, Strisores)3
Two almost‐forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring3
Shedding light on the enigmatic extinct insect order Glosselytrodea: new diversity and key morphological insights into non‐tegmenized Permian forms3
Tough to digest: first record of Teleosauroidea (Thalattosuchia) in a regurgitalite from the Upper Jurassic of north‐eastern Italy3
The Serbian Lake System: a stepping stone for freshwater molluscs in the middle Miocene3
Cranial anatomy and systematics of Dendrerpeton cf. helogenes (Tetrapoda, Temnospondyli) from the Pennsylvanian of Joggins, revisited through micro‐CT scanning3
Evidence of large terrestrial seymouriamorphs in the lowermost Permian of the Czech Republic3
Late Cretaceous hydrothermal vent communities from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus: systematics and evolutionary significance3
The oldest Euphasmatodea (Insecta, Phasmatodea): modern morphology in an Early Cretaceous stick insect fossil from the Crato Formation of Brazil2
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 acanthopterygians2
A taxonomic revision and cranial description of Terrestrisuchus gracilis (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Pant‐y‐Ffynnon Quarry (southern Wales)2
Cranial remains of Ramsayia magna from the Late Pleistocene of Australia and the evolution of gigantism in wombats (Marsupialia, Vombatidae)2
Extraordinary Ordovician trilobite Fantasticolithus gen. nov. from Peru and its bearing on the trinucleimorph hypothesis2
Multiple occurrences of pathologies suggesting a common and severe bone infection in a population of the Australian Pleistocene giant, Genyornis newtoni (Aves, Dromornithidae)2
A fossil fish assemblage from the middle Miocene of the Cocinetas Basin, northern Colombia2
First Eocene–Miocene anuran fossils from Peruvian Amazonia: insights into neotropical frog evolution and diversity2
Redescription of the cranial skeleton of the Early Devonian (Emsian) sarcopterygian Durialepis edentatus Otto (Dipnomorpha, Porolepiformes)2
Evolution of the conodont Diplognathodus ellesmerensis from D. benderi sp. nov. at the Bashkirian–Moscovian (lower–middle Pennsylvanian) boundary in South China2
Burrows provided shelter for tetrapods in a Permo‐Triassic desert2
Systematics, ontogeny and palaeobiogeography of the genus Orthacanthus (Diplodoselachidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lower Permian of France2
The Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from the southern Qilian Mountains, north‐western China2
First occurrence of Nyssa endocarps and associated fungi in the Oligocene of South China: palaeogeographical and palaeoecological significance2
Carboniferous horseshoe crab musculature suggests anatomical conservatism within Xiphosurida2
The early Wuchiapingian (late Permian) fusuline fauna from the Penglaitan Section, South China2
Silurian freshwater arthropod from northwest China2
An unusual shark assemblage from the Ladinian–Carnian interval of South China2
Linguliform brachiopods from the Cambrian (Guzhangian) Karpinsk Formation of Novaya Zemlya2
Attenborough's beauty: exceptional pattern preservation in a frog‐legged leaf beetle from the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Sagrinae)2
Comment on: The ichnogenus Lumbricaria Münster from the Upper Jurassic of Germany interpreted as faecal strings of ammonites2
A Miopetaurista (Rodentia, Sciuridae) cranium from the Middle Miocene of Bavaria (Germany) and brain evolution in flying squirrels2
The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange2
Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications2
Turtles all the way down: Neogene pig‐nosed turtle fossil from southern Australia reveals cryptic freshwater turtle invasions and extinctions2
Bone histology of dinocephalians (Therapsida, Dinocephalia): palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences2
Early Jurassic coprolites: insights into palaeobotany and the feeding behaviour of dinosaurs2
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
The damselfly palaeofauna from the Eocene of Wyoming and Colorado, USA (Insecta, Odonata, Zygoptera)2
On the occurrence of rare nannoliths (calcareous nannofossils) in the Early Jurassic and their implications for the end‐Triassic mass extinction2
A description of the palate and mandible of Youngina capensis (Sauropsida, Diapsida) based on synchrotron tomography, and the phylogenetic implications2
Bivalves from the Changhsingian (upper Permian) Bellerophon Formation of the Dolomites (Italy): ancestors of Lower Triassic post‐extinction benthic communities2
First report of silicified wood from a late Pennsylvanian intramontane basin in the Pyrenees: systematic affinities and palaeoecological implications1
Three‐dimensional reconstruction of thein situmode of life of the Cambrian coralCambroctoconus: asexual reproduction and colony growth in immediate response to cryptic habitats1
The first belemnite of boreal ancestry from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of the western Tethys: implications for belemnite ecology1
A possibly deep branching artiopodan arthropod from the lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (North Greenland)1
High diversity of siliceous sponges in Western Tethyan areas during the Eocene: palaeobiogeographical, ecological and taxonomic significance1
Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria)1
Adult branchiosaurid temnospondyls: the life cycle of Xerodromeus gracilis1
Evolutionary process of extremely twisted heteromorph ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan1
A unique Late Cretaceous fossil wood assemblage from Chilean Patagonia provides clues to a high‐latitude continental environment1
Early detritivory and sedimentivory in insects based on in situ gut contents from Triassic aquatic nymphs1
Putative hydroid symbionts recorded by bioclaustrations in fossil molluscan shells: a revision and reinterpretation of the cecidogenus Rodocanalis1
Evaluating growth in Macrospondylus bollensis (Crocodylomorpha, Teleosauroidea) in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany1
Redefining the Huayquerian Stage (Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene) of the South American chronostratigraphic scale based on biostratigraphical analyses and geochronological dating1
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, France1
Allometry in Late Devonian Podocopa ostracods (Crustacea) and its implications for ostracod ontogeny1
Healed injuries, ontogeny and scleritome construction in a Late Ordovician machaeridian (Annelida, Aphroditiformia)1
Late Ordovician (Katian) linguliform microbrachiopods from north‐eastern Yunnan, South China1
Bone‐bearing coprolites from the Upper Triassic of India: ichnotaxonomy, probable producers and predator–prey relationships1
Lower Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) graptolites of the genera Rastrites and Stavrites: systematics, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography1
A new Changhsingian (Lopingian) brachiopod fauna of the shallow‐water clastic shelf facies from Fujian Province, south‐eastern China1
Anatomy, palaeoautecology and phylogenetic affinity of tubular Glossolites magnus from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China1
Newly discovered morphology of the Silurian sea spider Haliestes and its implications1
A new remarkably preserved fossil assassin bug (Insecta, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado1
Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina1
Sclerite assembly, articulation and protective system of Lower Devonian machaeridians1
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
The first edrioasteroid echinoderm from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China1
Earliest fossil record of the genus Tetradium (Rutaceae) in Asia: implications for its evolution and palaeoecology1
A new early water frog (Telmatobius) from the Miocene of the Bolivian Altiplano1
Vertebrate predation in the Late Devonian evidenced by bite traces and regurgitations: implications within an early tetrapod freshwater ecosystem1
Morphological–phylogenetic analysis of the late Cenozoic Chlamydini von Teppner (Bivalvia, Pectinidae) of southern South America1
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
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