OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil	23
Evolutionary pattern ofMetacaremysgen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America	21
Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from North Greenland: new light on metazoan diversity in early Cambrian shelf environments	18
New and revised small shelly fossil record from the lower Cambrian of northern Iran	16
New information on the Jurassic lepidosauromorph Marmoretta oxoniensis	16
Elemgasem nubilus: a new brachyrostran abelisaurid (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina	16
Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of western USA and India	15
A unique hybodontiform skeleton provides novel insights into Mesozoic chondrichthyan life	14
Rosselichnidae ifam. nov.: burrows with concentric, spiral or eccentric lamination	13
An early‐diverging procolophonid from the lowermost Triassic of South America and the origins of herbivory in Procolophonoidea	12
The first Silurian trilobite with three‐dimensionally preserved soft parts reveals novel appendage morphology	11
Critical re‐evaluation of Limulidae uncovers limited Limulus diversity	10
New barklice (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber	10
A Burgess Shale mandibulate arthropod with a pygidium: a case of convergent evolution	10
The late Oligocene xenarthran fauna of Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza, Argentina) and its implications for sloth origins and the diversity of Palaeogene cingulates	9
Extending the footprint record of Pareiasauromorpha to the Cisuralian: earlier appearance and wider palaeobiogeography of the group	9
A new species of the Cambrian bivalved euarthropod Pectocaris with axially differentiated enditic armatures	9
An unpredicted ancient colonization of the West Indies by North American rodents: dental evidence of a geomorph from the early Oligocene of Puerto Rico	9
Postcranial anatomy of the extinct terrestrial slothSimomylodon uccasamamensis(Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano, and its evolutionary implications	9
Nasal compartmentalization in Kogiidae (Cetacea, Physeteroidea): insights from a new late Miocene dwarf sperm whale from the Pisco Formation	8
Panderodus from the Waukesha Lagerstätte of Wisconsin, USA: a primitive macrophagous vertebrate predator	8
First pan‐trionychid turtle (Testudines, Pan‐Trionychidae) from the Palaeogene of Africa	8
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 USA	8
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 record	7
Not a jaguar after all? Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pleistocene felid Panthera gombaszoegensis	7
Microstructural description of the maniraptoran egg Protoceratopsidovum	7
Upper Ordovician Thylacocephala (Euarthropoda, Eucrustacea) from Bohemia indicate early ecological differentiation	7
A previously missing link in the evolution of dasytine soft‐winged flower beetles from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera, Melyridae)	7
The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat‐Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation	7
First non‐amber Mesozoic pseudoscorpion from Upper Triassic deposits of eastern Europe, with a description of two new fossil subfamilies (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Feaellidae)	7
A giant phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India with new insights on phytosaur migration, endemism and extinction	7
A late Asbian (Mississippian) stratotype for England: Trowbarrow Quarry, Cumbria, UK	7
North American Spathian (upper Olenekian, Lower Triassic) neogondolellin conodonts	6
The dawn of the flying reptiles: first Triassic record in the southern hemisphere	6
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 JurassicUKmicrovertebrate faunas	6
The middle Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid Arctoceras blomstrandi: conch morphology and ornamentation in relation to stratigraphy	6
An early Cambrian mackenziid reveals links to modular Ediacaran macro‐organisms	6
Taxonomic and palaeobiological implications of a large, pathological sabretooth (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Lower Pliocene of South Africa	6
Morphological disparity in the evolution of the ophthalmosaurid forefin: new clues from the Upper Jurassic of Argentina	6
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 Pachycormidae	6
Phylogeny, disparity and mass extinction response in the trilobite order Harpetida	6
A peirosaurid mandible from the Albian–Cenomanian (Lower Cretaceous) of Algeria and the taxonomic content of Hamadasuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Peirosauridae)	6
Early adaptations of true flies (Diptera) to moist and aquatic continental environments	5
Silurian (late Llandovery – Wenlock) conodont fauna and biostratigraphy from the Yanbian area of Sichuan Province, south‐west China	5
The damselfly palaeofauna from the Eocene of Wyoming and Colorado, USA (Insecta, Odonata, Zygoptera)	5
Palynology of a short sequence of the Lower Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation at Cottonwood Canyon (Wyoming): age, depositional environments and plant diversity	5
Two almost‐forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring	5
Endemic earliest Lochkovian species ofCaudicriodus(conodont) from southern Laurentia and the Silurian–Devonian boundary	5
Eurasian wanderer: an island sabre‐toothed cat (Felidae, Machairodontinae) in the Far East	5
An abundant sea anemone from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstӓtte, USA	5
Biostratigraphy and taxonomy of Drumian (middle Cambrian) agnostid trilobites of the Manuels River Formation, Avalonian Newfoundland, Canada	5
New insights into the affinities, autoecology, and habit of the Mesozoic fernWeichselia reticulatabased on the revision of stems from Bernissart (Mons Basin, Belgium)	5
Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño	5
Bone‐bearing coprolites from the Upper Triassic of India: ichnotaxonomy, probable producers and predator–prey relationships	4
Lophotrochozoa in the Cambrian evolutionary radiation and the Pelagiella problem	4
Trilobites of trinucleid, raphiophorid and cyclopygid associations from the Ordovician (Darriwilian – early Katian) of the west Balkhash region and Betpak‐Dala, Central Kazakhstan	4
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 acanthopterygians	4
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 scanning	4
A revision of Vernicomacanthus Miles with comments on the characters of stem‐group chondrichthyans	4
Late Cretaceous hydrothermal vent communities from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus: systematics and evolutionary significance	4
Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications	4
A new vampyromorph species from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône Lagerstätte	4
A new gecko (Squamata, Gekkota) from the Eocene of Geiseltal (Germany) implies long‐term persistence of European Sphaerodactylidae	4
Early eukaryotic microfossils of the late Palaeoproterozoic Limbunya Group, Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia	4
Tough to digest: first record of Teleosauroidea (Thalattosuchia) in a regurgitalite from the Upper Jurassic of north‐eastern Italy	4
Organic‐walled microfossils from the Kistedalen Formation, Norway: acritarch chronostratigraphy of the Baltic Miaolingian and evolutionary trends of placoid acritarchs	4
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 & Mercerat	4
Early Jurassic coprolites: insights into palaeobotany and the feeding behaviour of dinosaurs	4
Redefining the Huayquerian Stage (Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene) of the South American chronostratigraphic scale based on biostratigraphical analyses and geochronological dating	3
Carboniferous horseshoe crab musculature suggests anatomical conservatism within Xiphosurida	3

The first edrioasteroid echinoderm from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China	3
Evidence of large terrestrial seymouriamorphs in the lowermost Permian of the Czech Republic	3
A new burnetiid from the middle Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships	3
Bivalves from the Changhsingian (upper Permian) Bellerophon Formation of the Dolomites (Italy): ancestors of Lower Triassic post‐extinction benthic communities	3
The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange	3
A taxonomic revision and cranial description of Terrestrisuchus gracilis (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Pant‐y‐Ffynnon Quarry (southern Wales)	3
Shedding light on the enigmatic extinct insect order Glosselytrodea: new diversity and key morphological insights into non‐tegmenized Permian forms	3
Earliest fossil record of the genus Tetradium (Rutaceae) in Asia: implications for its evolution and palaeoecology	3
Multiple occurrences of pathologies suggesting a common and severe bone infection in a population of the Australian Pleistocene giant, Genyornis newtoni (Aves, Dromornithidae)	3
On the occurrence of rare nannoliths (calcareous nannofossils) in the Early Jurassic and their implications for the end‐Triassic mass extinction	3
A phylogenetic approach to the study of the evolution of Hypermecaspididae (Olenida, Trilobita)	3
A unique Late Cretaceous fossil wood assemblage from Chilean Patagonia provides clues to a high‐latitude continental environment	3
Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina	3
The oldest dairoidid crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Parthenopoidea) from the Eocene of Spain	3
Bone histology of dinocephalians (Therapsida, Dinocephalia): palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences	3
First Eocene–Miocene anuran fossils from Peruvian Amazonia: insights into neotropical frog evolution and diversity	3
A Hirnantian holdover from the Late Ordovician mass extinction: phylogeny and biogeography of a new anthracocrinid crinoid from Estonia	3
Trilobites of Thailand's Cambrian–Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting	3
A description of the palate and mandible of Youngina capensis (Sauropsida, Diapsida) based on synchrotron tomography, and the phylogenetic implications	3
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, France	2
Allometry in Late Devonian Podocopa ostracods (Crustacea) and its implications for ostracod ontogeny	2
Silurian freshwater arthropod from northwest China	2
An unusual shark assemblage from the Ladinian–Carnian interval of South China	2
Lower Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) graptolites of the generaRastritesandStavrites: systematics, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography	2
The early Paleocene (Danian) climate of Svalbard based on palaeobotanical data	2
A Miopetaurista (Rodentia, Sciuridae) cranium from the Middle Miocene of Bavaria (Germany) and brain evolution in flying squirrels	2
The dental system of †Kazanichthys viatkensis (Actinopterygii, Acrolepididae) from the middle Permian of European Russia: palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences	2
First occurrence of Nyssa endocarps and associated fungi in the Oligocene of South China: palaeogeographical and palaeoecological significance	2
Cranial remains of Ramsayia magna from the Late Pleistocene of Australia and the evolution of gigantism in wombats (Marsupialia, Vombatidae)	2
A fossil fish assemblage from the middle Miocene of the Cocinetas Basin, northern Colombia	2
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 Brazil	2
Burrows provided shelter for tetrapods in a Permo‐Triassic desert	2
The Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from the southern Qilian Mountains, north‐western China	2
Turtles all the way down: Neogene pig‐nosed turtle fossil from southern Australia reveals cryptic freshwater turtle invasions and extinctions	2
Extraordinary Ordovician trilobite Fantasticolithus gen. nov. from Peru and its bearing on the trinucleimorph hypothesis	2
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 Australia	2
A review of the glacial environment arthropod trace fossilsUmfoloziaandWarvichniumwith the description of new ichnotaxa	2
Adult branchiosaurid temnospondyls: the life cycle of Xerodromeus gracilis	2
Comment on: The ichnogenus Lumbricaria Münster from the Upper Jurassic of Germany interpreted as faecal strings of ammonites	2
Systematics, ontogeny and palaeobiogeography of the genus Orthacanthus (Diplodoselachidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lower Permian of France	2
Two new species of small‐bodied pachycephalosaurine (Dinosauria, Marginocephalia) from the uppermost Cretaceous of North America suggest hidden diversity in well‐sampled formations	1
Pleurotomariida (Gastropoda) from the upper Anisian platform carbonates of the Dolomites (Southern Alps, Italy): systematics, palaeobiogeography and Triassic recovery	1
Sclerite assembly, articulation and protective system of Lower Devonian machaeridians	1
Evolutionary–phylogenetic pathway of the Cretaceous ammonite genusAegocriocerasand its relationship toJuddicerasspp. andCrioceratitesspp.	1
An enigmatic structure in the tail of vetulicolians from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China	1
New insights into the sea spider fauna (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) of La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône, France (Jurassic, Callovian)	1
Archaeichnium haughtoni: a robust burrow lining from the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition of Namibia	1
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, India	1
The first unique‐headed bug (Hemiptera, Enicocephalomorpha) from Cretaceous Iberian amber, and the Gondwanan connections of its palaeoentomological fauna	1
Early detritivory and sedimentivory in insects based on in situ gut contents from Triassic aquatic nymphs	1
First report of silicified wood from a late Pennsylvanian intramontane basin in the Pyrenees: systematic affinities and palaeoecological implications	1
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 record	1
The first belemnite of boreal ancestry from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of the western Tethys: implications for belemnite ecology	1
Late Ordovician and early Silurian virgianid and stricklandioid brachiopods from North Greenland: implications for a warm‐water faunal province	1
An unexpected late paroxyclaenid (Mammalia, Cimolesta) out of Europe: dental evidence from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills, Pakistan	1
Phylogenetic patterns in fossil and living billfishes (Istiophoriformes, Istiophoridae): evidence from the Central Mediterranean	1
Palaeoscolecids from the Ludlow Series of Leintwardine, Herefordshire (UK): the latest occurrence of palaeoscolecids in the fossil record	1
Vertebrate predation in the Late Devonian evidenced by bite traces and regurgitations: implications within an early tetrapod freshwater ecosystem	1
High diversity of siliceous sponges in Western Tethyan areas during the Eocene: palaeobiogeographical, ecological and taxonomic significance	1
Rostral and body shape analyses reveal cryptic diversity of Late Jurassic batomorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Europe	1
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 China	1
Newly discovered morphology of the Silurian sea spider Haliestes and its implications	1
Evaluating growth in Macrospondylus bollensis (Crocodylomorpha, Teleosauroidea) in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany	1
Phylogenetic position of Bohemiacinctus gen. nov. (Echinodermata, Cincta) from the Cambrian of Bohemia: implications for macroevolution and the role of taxon sampling in palaeobiological system	1
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 habitats	1
Macroflora from Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Hicks Creek, southern Talkeetna Mountains, south‐central Alaska	1
Benthic pterobranchs from the Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Konservat‐Lagerstätte of Utah	1
First occurrence of family Clavatoraceae (fossil Charophyta) in the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of France	1
Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria)	1
Evolutionary process of extremely twisted heteromorph ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan	1
Late Ordovician (Katian) linguliform microbrachiopods from north‐eastern Yunnan, South China	1
A new early water frog (Telmatobius) from the Miocene of the Bolivian Altiplano	1
Anatomy, palaeoautecology and phylogenetic affinity of tubular Glossolites magnus from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China	1
Morphological–phylogenetic analysis of the late Cenozoic Chlamydini von Teppner (Bivalvia, Pectinidae) of southern South America	1
Putative hydroid symbionts recorded by bioclaustrations in fossil molluscan shells: a revision and reinterpretation of the cecidogenusRodocanalis	1
A new remarkably preserved fossil assassin bug (Insecta, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado	1