OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Papers in Palaeontology is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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A new species of Lophiomeryx from the Eocene of Bujiamiaozi (Ningxia, China) and implications for the early evolution of the family Lophiomerycidae	20
Evidence of negative carbon isotope excursions and intense wildfire activity in Upper Triassic coal deposits from Junggar Basin, NW China	19
Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria)	19
Cambelodon torreensis, a new pinheirodontid multituberculate from the Upper Jurassic of western Portugal	19
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Temnodontosaurus bromalites from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: hunting, digestive taphonomy and prey preferences in a macropredatory ichthyosaur	17
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Two almost‐forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring	14
A gigantic new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from Middle Miocene tropical environments of La Venta in northern South America	13
A new chelid turtle (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina	13
Pleurotomariida (Gastropoda) from the upper Anisian platform carbonates of the Dolomites (Southern Alps, Italy): systematics, palaeobiogeography and Triassic recovery	13
A new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil: insights into the last representatives of the family	12
Ostracod fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Cangxi Formation of the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China: taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography	12
The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange	12
Overview of Psocodea in Eocene Oise amber and implications for the transition to modern‐day barklice communities	12
Diving into the past: a new assemblage of Neogene elasmobranch microfossils from the eastern Pacific of South America	12
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Comment on: Omnidens appendages and the origin of radiodont mouthparts	11
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Evaluating growth in Macrospondylus bollensis (Crocodylomorpha, Teleosauroidea) in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany	11
Reproductive organs and fronds of Umkomasiales (Mesozoic seed ferns) from Cañadón Largo Formation (Middle–Upper Triassic), Patagonia, Argentina	10
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The Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from the southern Qilian Mountains, north‐western China	10
Systematics, ontogeny and palaeobiogeography of the genus Orthacanthus (Diplodoselachidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lower Permian of France	10
A possible archaic precursor of the octocoral structural plan from the Ordovician of Estonia	10
Early detritivory and sedimentivory in insects based on in situ gut contents from Triassic aquatic nymphs	9
Rostral and body shape analyses reveal cryptic diversity of Late Jurassic batomorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Europe	9
The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: a new mid‐sized pareiasaur Yinshanosaurus angustus and its implications for the phy	9
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Astogenetic morphological variation in the bryozoan Prophyllodictya gracilis from the Middle Ordovician of Russia and inferred colony‐wide feeding currents	9
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Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina	9
A new euarthropod from the Soom Shale (Ordovician) Konservat‐Lagerstätte, South Africa, with exceptional preservation of the connective endoskeleton and myoanatomy	8
The early Cambrian Bushizheia yangi and head segmentation in upper stem‐group euarthropods	8
The first pterosaur from the Bauru Group: an azhdarchid from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil	8
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Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, North Slope of Alaska, and their palaeobiogeographical significance	8
Feeding strategies of the Pleistocene insular dwarf elephants Palaeoloxodon falconeri and Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis	8
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A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest N	8
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Fossilized soft tissues in Palaeozoic bryozoans	8
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Phylogenetic patterns in fossil and living billfishes (Istiophoriformes, Istiophoridae): evidence from the Central Mediterranean	7
Palaeoscolecids from the early Cambrian Guanshan biota, Yunnan Province, China	7
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Cryptic moulting behaviour of some Carboniferous Ostracoda	7
Radiolarian response to environmental changes at the Sinemurian–Pliensbachian transition in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	7
A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem‐gnathostomes)	7
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Fossil ground sloth footprints: ichnotaxonomy and producers	6
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	6
The brachiopod faunas from the Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician; Tremadocian–Floian) of the Zagora area, Anti‐Atlas, Morocco: evidence for a biodiversity hub in Gondwana	6
Diversity of limb long bone morphology among proboscideans: how to be the biggest one in the family	6
The oldest evidence of brooding in a Devonian blastoid reveals the evolution of new reproductive strategies in early echinoderms	6
Exceptionally preserved eggs show philopatric resilience of phasianids to environmental fragmentation during the Middle–Late Miocene transition in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula	6
Late Miocene Fagus (Fagaceae) foliage, cupules and nuts, from eastern Zhejiang, China	6
Late Ordovician and early Silurian virgianid and stricklandioid brachiopods from North Greenland: implications for a warm‐water faunal province	6
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Insights into reef evolution: the first sphinctozoan‐dominated reef facies from the lower Katian (Upper Ordovician) of the Tarim Basin, China	5
Allometry in Late Devonian Podocopa ostracods (Crustacea) and its implications for ostracod ontogeny	5
Revisiting Oligocene Mimosa and Mimosites leaflets from southwest Europe: taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and	5
New aquatic insects from the Miocene of Australia with notes on the ecology and ontogeny of a new species of Chaoborus (Diptera, Chaoboridae)	5
Exceptional preservation and unexpected diversity of radiolarians in the aftermath of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	5
Burrows provided shelter for tetrapods in a Permo‐Triassic desert	5
Evolutionarily ancient deep‐water seep communities in the Eocene Tethys: examples from Buje (Croatia)	5
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Giant longirostrine crocodylians from the Lower Miocene of Pakistan: new material and taxonomic review	5
A unique Late Cretaceous fossil wood assemblage from Chilean Patagonia provides clues to a high‐latitude continental environment	5

Advanced crown‐group Rossellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida) resembling extant taxa from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota	5
A new large paracrocodylomorph archosaurian from the Tarjadia Assemblage Zone (upper Ladinian to lower Carnian) of the Chañares Formation (Argentina) and	5
Trace fossils from the Meishucun section of South China: revisiting ichnotaxonomy, behavioural diversification and ecosystem engineering from a key Ediacaran–Cambrian succession	5
Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: analysis of a tooth‐based fauna from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Valanginian) via phylogenetic, discriminant and machine le	5