OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Papers in Palaeontology is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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Late Ordovician (Katian) linguliform microbrachiopods from north‐eastern Yunnan, South China	26
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Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria)	18
Bone histology of dinocephalians (Therapsida, Dinocephalia): palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences	18
Cambelodon torreensis, a new pinheirodontid multituberculate from the Upper Jurassic of western Portugal	17
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Pleurotomariida (Gastropoda) from the upper Anisian platform carbonates of the Dolomites (Southern Alps, Italy): systematics, palaeobiogeography and Triassic recovery	13
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A gigantic new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from Middle Miocene tropical environments of La Venta in northern South America	11
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Two almost‐forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring	11
A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil	10
A new chelid turtle (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina	10
Early Cretaceous enigmatic insect group showing unique wing venations and antennal sensilla	10
Systematics, ontogeny and palaeobiogeography of the genus Orthacanthus (Diplodoselachidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lower Permian of France	9
The Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from the southern Qilian Mountains, north‐western China	9
The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange	9
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Evaluating growth in Macrospondylus bollensis (Crocodylomorpha, Teleosauroidea) in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany	9
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Overview of Psocodea in Eocene Oise amber and implications for the transition to modern‐day barklice communities	8
A possible archaic precursor of the octocoral structural plan from the Ordovician of Estonia	8
Early detritivory and sedimentivory in insects based on in situ gut contents from Triassic aquatic nymphs	8

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Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina	8
A new euarthropod from the Soom Shale (Ordovician) Konservat‐Lagerstätte, South Africa, with exceptional preservation of the connective endoskeleton and myoanatomy	7
Rostral and body shape analyses reveal cryptic diversity of Late Jurassic batomorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Europe	7
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Astogenetic morphological variation in the bryozoan Prophyllodictya gracilis from the Middle Ordovician of Russia and inferred colony‐wide feeding currents	7
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The early Cambrian Bushizheia yangi and head segmentation in upper stem‐group euarthropods	6
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Earliest fossil record of the genus Tetradium (Rutaceae) in Asia: implications for its evolution and palaeoecology	6
Fossilized soft tissues in Palaeozoic bryozoans	6
New barklice (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber	6
Phylogenetic patterns in fossil and living billfishes (Istiophoriformes, Istiophoridae): evidence from the Central Mediterranean	6
Rosselichnidae ifam. nov.: burrows with concentric, spiral or eccentric lamination	6
Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of western USA and India	6
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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	5
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Late Ordovician and early Silurian virgianid and stricklandioid brachiopods from North Greenland: implications for a warm‐water faunal province	5
The first edrioasteroid echinoderm from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China	5
Diversity of limb long bone morphology among proboscideans: how to be the biggest one in the family	5
Evolutionarily ancient deep‐water seep communities in the Eocene Tethys: examples from Buje (Croatia)	5
An early Cambrian mackenziid reveals links to modular Ediacaran macro‐organisms	5
Cryptic moulting behaviour of some Carboniferous Ostracoda	5
Radiolarian response to environmental changes at the Sinemurian–Pliensbachian transition in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	5
The oldest evidence of brooding in a Devonian blastoid reveals the evolution of new reproductive strategies in early echinoderms	5
Allometry in Late Devonian Podocopa ostracods (Crustacea) and its implications for ostracod ontogeny	5
The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat‐Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation	4
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	4
Trace fossils from the Meishucun section of South China: revisiting ichnotaxonomy, behavioural diversification and ecosystem engineering from a key Ediacaran–Cambrian succession	4
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Phylogeny, disparity and mass extinction response in the trilobite order Harpetida	4
A unique Late Cretaceous fossil wood assemblage from Chilean Patagonia provides clues to a high‐latitude continental environment	4
New aquatic insects from the Miocene of Australia with notes on the ecology and ontogeny of a new species of Chaoborus (Diptera, Chaoboridae)	4
Advanced crown‐group Rossellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida) resembling extant taxa from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota	4
A late Asbian (Mississippian) stratotype for England: Trowbarrow Quarry, Cumbria, UK	4
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Burrows provided shelter for tetrapods in a Permo‐Triassic desert	4
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	4
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A new early water frog (Telmatobius) from the Miocene of the Bolivian Altiplano	3
Illuminating the richness of the ascidian fossil record: a new exceptionally diverse assemblage of ascidian spicules from the Middle Miocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Early eukaryotic microfossils of the late Palaeoproterozoic Limbunya Group, Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia	3
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Lower Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) graptolites of the generaRastritesandStavrites: systematics, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography	3
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A review of the glacial environment arthropod trace fossilsUmfoloziaandWarvichniumwith the description of new ichnotaxa	3
Elemgasem nubilus: a new brachyrostran abelisaurid (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina	3
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A fossil fish assemblage from the middle Miocene of the Cocinetas Basin, northern Colombia	3
Lophotrochozoa in the Cambrian evolutionary radiation and the Pelagiella problem	3
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An enigmatic structure in the tail of vetulicolians from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China	3