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Papers

(The median citation count of Lethaia 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Smithian and Spathian palaeontological records of the Vikinghøgda Formation in Central Spitsbergen	76
Enhanced juvenile mortality of orbitolinids (larger benthic foraminifera) in the late early Aptian of the Langshan Formation, Tibet: a possible link to OAE1a?	16
Early ontogeny and other possible molluscan traits in hyolith biology and anatomy	13
Mineralogy of Oligocene fossil wood, bone and associated sediments from the Petrified Forest protected area, New Cairo, Egypt	11
Silicified pedunculate kutorginate brachiopods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) of Jordan	10
How microbes replaced metazoans in reef ecosystem during the Late Devonian mass extinction: new insights from platform facies in South China	10
Soft tissue anatomy of pterosaur hands and feet – new information from Solnhofen region pterodactyloid specimens	9
Influence of substrate size and morphology on skeletobiont assemblages: a case study from the Middle Devonian brachiopods of Morocco	8
Revisiting the aerobic capacity of Notosuchia (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia)	7
Expanding the osteohistological toolbox for palaeophysiological studies	7
Palaeoenvironmental study of benthic foraminifera from the late Pleistocene Puente de Pascua Formation type locality, Buenos Aires province, Argentina	7
Linear morphometry and shell growth of the bivalve Tagelus plebeius as an indicator for salinity in Holocene South American estuaries	7
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	6
A micropalaeontological record of the Early Cretaceous marine-terrestrial interface in central Europe	6
Interspecies and intraspecific variability in the trilobites Duyunaspis and Balangia from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of Jianhe, South	5
Fossil fish provide evidence of geomelanin preservation with implications on the visual accuracy of an extinct fish species	5
Articulated and dislocated infaunal echinoids as unique markers of hypoxic environments from the Miocene of Central Paratethys	5
Palaeopathologies in Upper Jurassic turtle shells – their origin and significance for the evolution of biotic interactions	5
Early-Middle Miocene coralline algal assemblages from the Siirt province, southeastern Türkiye: microtaphofacies analysis and palaeoenvironmental implications	5
Line up! Gregarious linear clusters of the trace fossil Lingulichnus from the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation, Pennsylvania, USA	5
Is there any evidence for the presence of extensive fibrolamellar complex in Notosuchia? New data on Araripesuchus wegeneri	5
New taphonomic and sedimentological insights into the preservation of high-relief Ediacaran fossils at Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland	5
Environmental interpretation of giant trace fossils from the lower Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of the Iberian Chain (Spain) from lithofacies, microfossil and ichnofossil assemblages	5
Late Quaternary terrigenous plant and coaly fragments found at the Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait: implications for postglacial plant colonization at Svalbard	4
Palaeoenvironmental analysis of bivalve-dominated concentrations from the lower‒middle Miocene succession, Gebel Gharra, Cairo-Suez District, Egypt	4

Molluscs of the Lower Ordovician Cabrières Lagerstätte, France – diversity and distribution	4
Quaternary environmental evolution of the Argentinean Pampa Deprimida based on mollusc and ostracod analysis	4
Nothosaur tracks from the Middle Triassic of Spain suggest a global distribution for distinctive swim track assemblages	4
Upper Viséan foraminiferal and algal diversity at Benburb, Northern Ireland as a tool of high-resolution biostratigraphy, and correlation of Late Viséan-Early Serpukhovian successions in Ireland and B	4
Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs	4
Nautilid beaks: unsuspected disparity and palaeoecological interpretation	4
A demineralized osteostracan fossil from the Silurian Kalana Lagerstätte of Estonia: revealing its internal anatomy and uncovering a unique type of fossilization	4
Palaeoenvironmental study of two new foraminifera sites from Late Pleistocene transgressive deposits, northeast Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	4
The Skyberg Lagerstätte from the Mjøsa area, Norway: a rare window into the late early Cambrian biodiversityof Scandinavia	4
Comparison of sclerobiont communities between three brachiopod host species from the Upper Ordovician Fairview Formation, Eastern USA	4
Taphonomic and reworking processes isolating cephalopod septa and chamber fillings	4
Bioerosion, encrustation, and taphonomic pathways of Nummulites tests and the palaeoenvironmental implications: Oligocene interval of the Kutch Basin, India	4
Early Cretaceous pterosaur guano deposit from central Oregon, USA	4
Thalassinoides and Olenichnus in the Terreneuvian carbonates of the Igarka Uplift, NW Siberian Platform	4
Palaeotectonic reconstructions of the Central Asian folded belt in the Silurian Tuvaella and Retziella brachiopod fauna locations	4
A microfossil evidence for the composition of fish communities in the Late Triassic of Tethys: examples from Cassian Formation, Italy	3
Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy	3
Neoichnology of the burrowing mayfly Tortopus circumfluus and its bearing on the ichnofossil Glossifungites gingrasi	3
Dental histology and attachment tissues in Notosuchus terrestris (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia): palaeobiological implications	3
Microwear structures and surface analysis on isolated theropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic Andrés fossil site, Pombal, Portugal	3
Spatiotemporal dynamics of nektonic biodiversity and vegetation shifts during the Smithian–Spathian transition: conodont and palynomorph insights from Svalbard	3
Integrated stratigraphical study of the Rhuddanian-Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) boundary succession in the Rheidol Gorge, Wales: a proposed Global Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the A	3
Lower and upper jaws of the Early Permian goniatitid ammonoids	3
Bioﬁlm harvesters in coastal settings of the early Palaeozoic	3
Early Jurassic coral reef development outside Tethys: an example from western Argentina	3
Morphology and mode of life of a peculiar Devonian microconchid tubeworm Aculeiconchus from Wyoming, USA	2
Scale dependent diversity of bryozoan assemblages in the reefs of the Late Ordovician Vasalemma Formation, Estonia	2
Late Devonian fossils of New South Wales and early tetrapod habitats	2
First report of epithelial cell moulds with nuclei impressions preserved in lower Cambrian (Stage 3) brachiopods from South China	2
Taphonomy of Permian leaves with Flinders-style Ediacaran preservation	2
Bayesian analysis of ultra-high-resolution ostracod record reveals the tempo and structure of the late Wenlock Mulde Event	2
Arguments for interpreting the vertebrate functional neck as an exaptation for terrestriality	2
Biomarker analysis of invertebrate fossils preserved in concretions from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Queensland, Australia	2
Taphonomy and its significant role in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the upper Turonian actaeonellid gastropod concentrations of Abu Roash, Western Desert, Egypt	2
Upper Cretaceous foreland flysch deposits from the Neotethyan Intra-Pontide Ocean: geological and palaeontological evidence from the Elmadağ Olistostrome of Ankara, central Türkiye	2
Biomineralization of primary carbonate cements: a new biosignature in the fossil record from the Anisian of Southern Italy	2
Oichnus Bromley as evidence of predator presence in the Canadian High Arctic	2
The largest complex burrow system from the early Cambrian of Sweden, probably made by priapulids in response to tidal currents	2
Lethaia Editorial Briefing	2
Could the asymmetrical commissure in rhynchonellide brachiopods be an adaptive trait?	2
Development and trunk segmentation of a redlichiid trilobite from Cambrian Series 2 of China	2
Ecomorphological datasets: comment on Hopkins (2022)	2
Response of Bathonian–Oxfordian transgressive-regressive cycles on foraminiferal morphogroups, and diversity: a case study from shallow marine deposits in north Gulf of Suez, Egypt	2
Challenges in using modern pollen analogues for Cenozoic palaeoecology: examples from the European Neogene	2
Naticid gastropod predation on bivalve assemblages across the K-Pg mass extinction boundary in Rajahmundry, India	1
Craniomandibular ontogeny of protoceratopsid dinosaurs indicates the possibility of an ontogenetic dietary shift	1
Conservative ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing during the post-embryonic stage in Cretaceous ammonoids of the subfamily Desmoceratinae	1
Does mode of early development influence distribution? A study of Eocene gastropods from the Western Indian Province	1
Biostratigraphical significance of a new trilobite fauna from the Harkless Formation (upper Stage 4, Series 2, Cambrian), Nevada, USA	1
Guilds of large carnivorans during the Pleistocene of Europe: a community structure analysis based on foraging strategies	1

Barnacle taphonomy and ultrastructure: comparing modern and fossil shells from the western Mediterranean	1
Gyrolithes as a proxy in the evolution of a river-influenced bay: an integrated ichnological and micropalaeontological approach in the Lower Pliocene of the Bajo Segura Basi	1
Tracing the changes of life strategy from Ordovician dendroids to graptoloids	1
Presumed chaetetids in Smithian (early Olenekian, Early Triassic) microbial-sponge limestones, Rock Canyon, Arizona, USA	1
The earliest calcified cyanobacteria from the Cambrian Terreneuvian at the western margin of the Yangtze Plate, China	1
Fate of calcareous nannofossils during the Rhaetian (Late Triassic): evidence from the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	1
Mandibular force profiles of Alioramini (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) with implications for palaeoecology of this unique lineage of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs	1
First record of the ichnospecies Oichnus ovalis in a Jurassic ammonite	1