OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geobios 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Tsuga leaves from the Neogene Baoshan Basin in southwest China and their palaeoecological implications	49
Dormice (Rodentia, Gliridae) from the Middle Miocene of Hambach 6C, Northwest Germany	18
A spatangoid echinoid assemblage from the Gutingkeng Formation (Early Pleistocene) of Taiwan and its paleoenvironmental and geological implications	15
Suidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Miocene hominoid locality of Alsótelekes (Hungary)	12
The environmental implications of upper Paleozoic plant-fossil assemblages with mixtures of wetland and drought-tolerant taxa in tropical Pangea	10
Morphology and growth factors of the Cambrian oncoids in the Shuangquan section, China	10
Editorial Board	10
Zooarchaeological study of pigs during the Holocene at El Portalón (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)	9
The purported record of an epibiontic rhabdopleurid in the early Ordovician Fezouata biota of Morocco, with a discussion about benthic pterobranchs (Hemichordata) in the Lagerstätte	8
A link of the Late Miocene giraffid migration pathway from the peri-Aegean lands to the northeastern Eurasian areas	8
A rare ‘flat-headed’ pachycephalosaur (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae) from West Texas, USA, with morphometric and heterochronic considerations	7
The Ordovician bioclaustration revolution	7
Middle and Upper Ordovician linguliformean and craniiformean brachiopods from the Brabant Massif, Belgium: Infaunal giants, encrusting forms and durophagy	7
Yuexiconcha nov. gen. – A resilifer-bearing palaeotaxodont (Bivalvia, Protobranchia) from the Ordovician of Guangdong, South China	7
Biostratigraphic and structural research in the Guedelhinha–Lançadoiras–Algaré sector in the context of the geology of the Neves–Corvo mine region, Iberian Pyrite Belt	7
First palynological record from Corcovado, central Patagonia, Argentina: Evidence for an age between the late Eocene and the Miocene	6
Environmental and vegetation dynamics through the Oligocene to Early Miocene of North Africa (Egypt)	6
Tremadocian (Ordovician) trilobites from the Brabant Massif (Belgium): Palaeogeographical and palaeoecological implications	6
Editorial Board	6
The Eastern Mediterranean fish fauna from the Piacenzian deposits of Polis Graben (Cyprus Island)	6
Blender as a tool for palaeoichnological research: Case study from Lark Quarry	6
Systematics, taphonomy and palaeobiogeography of a balaenopterid (Cetacea, Mysticeti) from the Early Pleistocene of southern Italy	6
The equids from Liventsovka and other localities of the Khaprovskii Faunal Complex, Russia: A revision	6
New machaeridian data from the Upper Ordovician of Scotland: Palaeoecological and global palaeobiogeographical implications	6
Improved paired light and scanning electron microscope imaging technique for identifying nannofossils in Arctic sediments	6

Newly discovered Middle Jurassic dinosaur tracks in the Baladeh region and faunal changes in northern Iran	6
Lower Ordovician Trilobites from SE Sardinia (Italy): A new record of the “Taihungshania bioprovince”	6
Palaehoplophorini glyptodonts (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) from the Puerto Madryn Formation (Late Miocene), Argentine Patagonia: Diversity and biochronological implications in southern South America	6
New planktonic foraminiferal record across the Aptian–Albian transition in Interior Fars, Zagros Basin, SW Iran: Implication for latest Aptian paleogeography along the southern shallower Neo-Tethys	6
Updating the fauna and age of the Neogene-Quaternary large mammal sites of Greece	6
Craniocervical morphological integration in birds	5
Macaronichnus ‘co-occurrence’ in offshore transition settings: Discussing the role of tidal versus fluid muds influence	5
Editorial Board	5
Description of new Pliocene to Early Pleistocene deer (Cervidae, Mammalia) remains from the Siwalik Hills in Pakistan with a discussion on paleobiogeography of cervids from the Indian subcontinent	5
Early Miocene gull-like birds (Charadriiformes: Laridae) from New Zealand	5
The rodent fauna from Prat de Cest (Aude, France) and its biochronological implications for the Early Miocene	5
New evidence for Early Miocene palaeoenvironmental changes in the North Croatian Basin: Insights implicated by microfossil assemblages	4
Aptian–Albian shallow-marine carbonate successions of the Geyik Dağı and the Anamas Dağ areas (Central Taurides, Turkey): Benthic foraminiferal assemblages and “Palaeocornuloculina” taurica nov. sp. (	4
Aspects of diversity, paleobiology, and morphology of wing-propelled diving birds	4
Megaglomerospora lealiae nov. gen., nov. sp. from the upper Carboniferous of Portugal: the largest glomeromycotan fungal spores	4
New fossil Asian palm civets (Carnivora, Viverridae) from the Siwaliks of Pakistan	4
First magnetostratigraphic results in the Aïn Beni Mathar-Guefaït Basin, Northern High Plateaus (Morocco): The Pliocene-Pleistocene Dhar Iroumyane composite section	4
Editorial Board	4
Shelly coprolites record durophagous predation in the Late Ordovician Bohdalec Formation (Katian; Prague Basin, Czech Republic)	3
Editorial Board	3
A new pustulose bivalve from the Late Ordovician of the Prague Basin (Czech Republic) and remarks on the diversification of pteriomorphids	3
New Viverridae specimens from the Malapa Hominin Site and their utility as palaeoenvironmental indicators	3
Early Pliocene Spalacinae from the locality of Afşar, western Turkey	3
Macrauchenia patachonica Owen, 1838: Limb bones morphology, locomotory biomechanics, and paleobiological inferences	3
Pyritized preservation of chancelloriids from the Cambrian Stage 3 of South China and implications for biomineralization	3
Editorial Board	3
New avian remains from the early Eocene of La Borie, southern France	3
Editorial Board	3
Jean-Christophe Balouet (12 november 1956 – 30 march 2021)	3
High-accuracy in the classification of butchery cut marks and crocodile tooth marks using machine learning methods and computer vision algorithms	3
Study of the shape and size in lower molars of Toxodon platensis (Mammalia: Toxodontidae) of the Late Pleistocene of South America	3
Messelornithids and messelornithid-like birds from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)	3
New caenagnathid (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) dinosaur specimens from middle and upper Campanian strata of West Texas	3
Diversity of the pterodactyloid ichnites of Crayssac (Lower Tithonian, Late Jurassic, southwestern France)	3
A new rodent chronology for the late Neogene of Spain	2
Borophagine canids of the Monarch Mill Formation (Middle Miocene), Nevada, U.S.A.	2
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a Neogene diatomite deposit from La Pampa Province (Argentina)	2
Editorial Board	2
Unraveling the interplay between humans and carnivores in El Olivo Cave during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic period (Llanera, Asturias, Spain)	2
Foreword for the Proceedings of the 10th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution	2
Vitinellopsis nov. gen., a new calcareous alga (Chlorophyta, Bryopsidales) from the Silurian of Gotland (Sweden), and the tribe Vitinelleae nov. nom	2
Editorial Board	2
A revisit to the Early Pliocene site of Abla (Guadix-Baza Basin, southern Spain)	2
Editorial Board	2
New Chinese Jurassic damsel-dragonflies of the families Paragonophlebiidae, Selenothemistidae and Isophlebiidae (Odonata, Epiproctophora) from the Jurassic Ordos Basin of NW China	2
Latest Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid assemblages in Utah (western USA basin) and their implications for regional biostratigraphy, biogeography and placement of the Smithian/Spathian boundary	2
New material of the small raoellid artiodactyl Metkatius kashmiriensis Kumar and Sahni, 1985 (Mammalia) from the middle Eocene of the Kalakot area, Rajouri District, Jammu and Kashmir, India	2
Book review	2
Radiolarian distribution and its response to the monsoonal and oceanographic changes of the Northwestern Bay of Bengal during the last 7000 years	2
First fossil evidence of samaras of Ailanthus Desf. (Simaroubaceae) from India and its implications	2

Multiproxy palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Bathonian Castelbouc sauropod tracksite (Causses Basin, southern France): Insight into a Middle Jurassic insular ecosystem	2
Population dynamics of shoreface to upper offshore occupation of the lower Ordovician brachiopod Tarfaya purmamarcaensis (Benedetto)	2
The presence of the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) during the last glaciation in north-western Italy (Buco del Frate, Brescia)	2
Reevaluating hydrodynamic performance of Late Triassic–Early Jurassic ammonoid shells with a 1D trajectory model	2
Not too fast: Maximum running speed estimation of the Miocene rheid Opisthodactylus kirchneri (Aves, Rheidae)	2
The early Oligocene Caniformia (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the standard level MP23 in the ‘Phosphorites du Quercy’, Occitanie, southwestern France	2
Middle Ordovician brachiopods from Tagoat, Co. Wexford, SE Ireland: Dapingian diversity drivers	2
Mississippian-Lower Pennsylvanian foraminifers from the Sierra Nacimiento and San Pedro Mountains, North-Central New Mexico, USA	2
First evidence of ichnopathologies in Rhinoceripeda tasnadyi tracks from the Miocene of Hungary	2
A review of Semigenetta (Viverridae, Carnivora) from the Miocene of Eurasia based on material from the hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Germany)	2
Description of the wing spur in the subfossil Malagasy lapwing, Vanellus madagascariensis (Aves: Charadriiformes, Charadriidae): Insights into some of its possible life history traits and why it is ex	2
Latest Ordovician jawed polychaetes, chitinozoans and depositional environments of the Levín section, Prague Basin, Czech Republic	2
Editorial Board	1
A new species of Pleuromeia (Lycopsid) from the upper Middle Triassic of Northern China and discussion on the spatiotemporal distribution and evolution of the genus	1
A 87Sr/86Sr, δ18O and δ13C record of Turonian-Santonian belemnites from lower Volga region of the East European Platform: Stratigraphic significance and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions	1
Editorial Board	1
Editorial Board	1
Ferruginous biolaminations within the pre-Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) of the Carnic Alps, Austria	1
Doing the time warp again: Electron Spin Resonance dating reveals oldest numeric age for Notiomastodon platensis Ameghino, 1888 (Mammalia, Proboscidea)	1
The Halcyornithidae from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK): A species complex of Paleogene arboreal birds	1
New early Pliocene Rhinocerotidae findings from Tuscany (Italy) and the Pliocene rhinocerotine record in Italy	1
An oversized, late-surviving reticulosan sponge from the Carboniferous of Ireland	1
Late Pleistocene small mammals (Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) from Agios Georgios Cave (Kilkis, Central Macedonia, Greece)	1
Editorial Board	1
Skeletal elements controlled soft-tissue preservation in echinoderms from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota	1
First record of Chelonian coprolites from the Early-Middle Miocene Kutch Basin, western India, and their palaeodietary and palaeobiological implications	1
Holocene vertebrate fauna in Fergana Valley, Kyrgyzstan, based on fossils from the Obishir-5 rock shelter	1
Muroid rodents from the Lower Siwalik deposits near Ramnagar (Jammu and Kashmir), India: Biostratigraphic implication	1
Fishes and squamate reptiles from the Pliocene sites of Berești and Mălușteni (eastern Romania) – A reassessment of old but poorly known material	1
Leaf scar and petiole anatomy reveal Pecopteris lativenosa Halle is a marattialean fern	1
Editorial Board	1
New genera and species of glaessneropsid crabs from the Lower and Middle Jurassic of France and Germany-Austria, and reconsolidation of Charassocarcinus Van Straelen, 1925	1
Editorial Board	1
A review of Palaeogiraffa (Giraffidae, Mammalia) from the Vallesian of the Eastern Mediterranean	1
Taphonomic damage obfuscates interpretation of the retroarticular region of the Asteriornis mandible	1
Three echinoid assemblages with the earliest cidaroid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fossil record from the Middle Miocene of Taiwan	1
Szaferomyces pliocenicus nov. gen., nov. sp. from the Upper Pliocene deposits of Mizerna (Poland), a fossil fungus showing close resemblance to modern powdery mildews	1
Book review	1
New data on the new micromammalian localities of Afoud (Aït Kandoula Basin, Morocco) at the Mio-Pliocene boundary: Biochronological, paleoecological and paleobiogeographic implications	1
The Carboniferous Gondwanan lycophyte Bumbudendron, revisited	1
Origin of the subphylum Asterozoa and redescription of a Moroccan Ordovician somasteroid	1
The conodont genus Neognathodus Dunn, 1970, lower to middle Pennsylvanian, Amazonas Basin, Western Gondwana: Biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental analysis	1
The euphyllophytes of a new Givetian plant assemblage from the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco	1
Filling knowledge gaps in the Ordovician radiations	1
The end of the Pleistocene in south-western Europe: The avian assemblages from Heinrich event 3 to the Last Glacial Maximum in the Prades mountains (north-eastern Iberian Peninsula)	1
Osteological and historical data on extinct island night herons (Aves: Ardeidae), with special reference to Ascension Island, the Mascarenes and Bonin Islands	1
A new species of Lovebird (Aves, Psittaculidae, Agapornis) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa)	1