OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Papers in Palaeontology is 4. 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 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
New and revised small shelly fossil record from the lower Cambrian of northern Iran	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
New barklice (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber	10
A Burgess Shale mandibulate arthropod with a pygidium: a case of convergent evolution	10
Critical re‐evaluation of Limulidae uncovers limited Limulus diversity	10
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
The late Oligocene xenarthran fauna of Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza, Argentina) and its implications for sloth origins and the diversity of Palaeogene cingulates	9
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
Nasal compartmentalization in Kogiidae (Cetacea, Physeteroidea): insights from a new late Miocene dwarf sperm whale from the Pisco Formation	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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