OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Smithian and Spathian palaeontological records of the Vikinghøgda Formation in Central Spitsbergen	89
Early ontogeny and other possible molluscan traits in hyolith biology and anatomy	18
Mineralogy of Oligocene fossil wood, bone and associated sediments from the Petrified Forest protected area, New Cairo, Egypt	15
How microbes replaced metazoans in reef ecosystem during the Late Devonian mass extinction: new insights from platform facies in South China	12
Acritarchs from the Floian (Early Ordovician) of the Montagne Noire, France: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications	12
Shell microstructure and composition illuminate the classification and evolution of early calcifying foraminifera	11
Enhanced juvenile mortality of orbitolinids (larger benthic foraminifera) in the late early Aptian of the Langshan Formation, Tibet: a possible link to OAE1a?	10
Silicified pedunculate kutorginate brachiopods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) of Jordan	10
Lower Ordovician graptolites from the Cabrières region, Montagne Noire, France	9
Expanding the osteohistological toolbox for palaeophysiological studies	9
Influence of substrate size and morphology on skeletobiont assemblages: a case study from the Middle Devonian brachiopods of Morocco	9
Soft tissue anatomy of pterosaur hands and feet – new information from Solnhofen region pterodactyloid specimens	8
New taphonomic and sedimentological insights into the preservation of high-relief Ediacaran fossils at Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland	8
First occurrence of a Silurian linguloid brachiopod with soft tissue preservation in Wales	8
Linear morphometry and shell growth of the bivalve Tagelus plebeius as an indicator for salinity in Holocene South American estuaries	7
Palaeopathologies in Upper Jurassic turtle shells – their origin and significance for the evolution of biotic interactions	7
A micropalaeontological record of the Early Cretaceous marine-terrestrial interface in central Europe	7
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	6
Palaeoenvironmental study of benthic foraminifera from the late Pleistocene Puente de Pascua Formation type locality, Buenos Aires province, Argentina	6
Revisiting the aerobic capacity of Notosuchia (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia)	6
Euarthropods from the Early Ordovician Cabrières Biota, including a new aglaspidid and freshly moulted trilobite material	5
New data on high-latitude ecosystems from the Early Ordovician Cabrières Biota, France	5
Interspecies and intraspecific variability in the trilobites Duyunaspis and Balangia from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of Jianhe, South	5
Articulated and dislocated infaunal echinoids as unique markers of hypoxic environments from the Miocene of Central Paratethys	5
New record of isograptid graptolites from the Puna region, northwestern Argentina: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical insights	5

Early-Middle Miocene coralline algal assemblages from the Siirt province, southeastern Türkiye: microtaphofacies analysis and palaeoenvironmental implications	5
Is there any evidence for the presence of extensive fibrolamellar complex in Notosuchia? New data on Araripesuchus wegeneri	5
Inconsistent oxygen and carbon isotopic values between contemporary secreted septa and outer shells in some early Albian ammonoid species from Madagascar	5
Line up! Gregarious linear clusters of the trace fossil Lingulichnus from the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation, Pennsylvania, USA	4
Biodiversity of the tundra vole, Alexandromys oeconomus : ancient mitogenomes and the identification of a novel European haplogroup	4
Palaeoenvironmental analysis of bivalve-dominated concentrations from the lower‒middle Miocene succession, Gebel Gharra, Cairo-Suez District, Egypt	4
Bioerosion, encrustation, and taphonomic pathways of Nummulites tests and the palaeoenvironmental implications: Oligocene interval of the Kutch Basin, India	4
Palaeoenvironmental study of two new foraminifera sites from Late Pleistocene transgressive deposits, northeast Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	4
Fossil fish provide evidence of geomelanin preservation with implications on the visual accuracy of an extinct fish species	4
Taphonomic and reworking processes isolating cephalopod septa and chamber fillings	4
Molluscs of the Lower Ordovician Cabrières Lagerstätte, France – diversity and distribution	4
Comparison of sclerobiont communities between three brachiopod host species from the Upper Ordovician Fairview Formation, Eastern USA	4
Thalassinoides and Olenichnus in the Terreneuvian carbonates of the Igarka Uplift, NW Siberian Platform	4
Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs	4
Environmental interpretation of giant trace fossils from the lower Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of the Iberian Chain (Spain) from lithofacies, microfossil and ichnofossil assemblages	4
Late Quaternary terrigenous plant and coaly fragments found at the Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait: implications for postglacial plant colonization at Svalbard	4
Nautilid beaks: unsuspected disparity and palaeoecological interpretation	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
Early Cretaceous pterosaur guano deposit from central Oregon, USA	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
Significant diachronism in vertebrate burrows: Pleistocene megamammal burrows in Neogene sediments of Central Argentina	3
Early Jurassic coral reef development outside Tethys: an example from western Argentina	3
Neoichnology of the burrowing mayfly Tortopus circumfluus and its bearing on the ichnofossil Glossifungites gingrasi	3
A microfossil evidence for the composition of fish communities in the Late Triassic of Tethys: examples from Cassian Formation, Italy	3
Brachiopods from the Early Ordovician Cabrières biota, southern France: ecology and taphonomy	3
Spatiotemporal dynamics of nektonic biodiversity and vegetation shifts during the Smithian–Spathian transition: conodont and palynomorph insights from Svalbard	3
Lower and upper jaws of the Early Permian goniatitid ammonoids	3
The Skyberg Lagerstätte from the Mjøsa area, Norway: a rare window into the late early Cambrian biodiversityof Scandinavia	3
Quaternary environmental evolution of the Argentinean Pampa Deprimida based on mollusc and ostracod analysis	3
Microwear structures and surface analysis on isolated theropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic Andrés fossil site, Pombal, Portugal	3
Does mode of early development influence distribution? A study of Eocene gastropods from the Western Indian Province	2
Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy	2
Development and trunk segmentation of a redlichiid trilobite from Cambrian Series 2 of China	2
Biomarker analysis of invertebrate fossils preserved in concretions from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Queensland, Australia	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
Taphonomy of Permian leaves with Flinders-style Ediacaran preservation	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
The largest complex burrow system from the early Cambrian of Sweden, probably made by priapulids in response to tidal currents	2
Morphology and mode of life of a peculiar Devonian microconchid tubeworm Aculeiconchus from Wyoming, USA	2
The Ordovician of the Cabrières area, Hérault, France: a brief overview of two centuries of palaeontological investigations	2
Late Devonian fossils of New South Wales and early tetrapod habitats	2
Ecomorphological datasets: comment on Hopkins (2022)	2
Guilds of large carnivorans during the Pleistocene of Europe: a community structure analysis based on foraging strategies	2
Scale dependent diversity of bryozoan assemblages in the reefs of the Late Ordovician Vasalemma Formation, Estonia	2
Arguments for interpreting the vertebrate functional neck as an exaptation for terrestriality	2
Partially preserved cornulitid feeding apparatuses from the lowest Silurian of South China support the lophophorate affinities of this enigmatic group	2
Could the asymmetrical commissure in rhynchonellide brachiopods be an adaptive trait?	2
First report of epithelial cell moulds with nuclei impressions preserved in lower Cambrian (Stage 3) brachiopods from South China	2
Tracing the changes of life strategy from Ordovician dendroids to graptoloids	2

Single disparity indices can be misleading: comment on Suárez & Esteve (2021)	1
Naticid gastropod predation on bivalve assemblages across the K-Pg mass extinction boundary in Rajahmundry, India	1
Integrated calcareous nannofossil and stable isotope stratigraphy across the Danian-Selandian boundary, west central Sinai, Egypt	1
Exceptionally well-preserved radiolarian fossils within Miocene trace fossils from the Amatsu Formation, Chiba, Japan	1
Ichnology of the Lower Ordovician Landeyran Formation, Montagne Noire, France and criteria for distinguishing simple trace fossils from body fossils	1
The mobile domicile boring Trypanites mobilis revisited – new observations and implications for ecosystem recovery following the Cretaceous – Palaeogene mass extinction	1
Presumed chaetetids in Smithian (early Olenekian, Early Triassic) microbial-sponge limestones, Rock Canyon, Arizona, USA	1
Hexactinellid sponges from the Early Ordovician Cabrières Biota, France: insights into Early Palaeozoic polar ecosystems	1
Barnacle taphonomy and ultrastructure: comparing modern and fossil shells from the western Mediterranean	1
Preservation modes of exceptionally preserved fossils from the Early Ordovician Cabrières Biota, France	1
Allometric growth and intraspecific variation of the craniomandibular bones of Tarbosaurus bataar (Theropoda, Tyrannosauridae): a geometric morphometric approach	1
Controls on the sinking of hymenopterans and orthopterans in water of varying salinity: a taphonomic study	1
Conservative ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing during the post-embryonic stage in Cretaceous ammonoids of the subfamily Desmoceratinae	1
Bone microstructure in terrestrial Mesozoic Crocodylomorpha: Neuquensuchus and notosuchians	1
Invasion and interaction: diversity shifts in the Nashville Basin during the Late Ordovician Richmondian Invasion	1
Habits of highly effective worms: brachiopod host preferences of North American Devonian microconchids and cornulitids	1
Bayesian analysis of ultra-high-resolution ostracod record reveals the tempo and structure of the late Wenlock Mulde Event	1
Craniomandibular ontogeny of protoceratopsid dinosaurs indicates the possibility of an ontogenetic dietary shift	1
First record of the ichnospecies Oichnus ovalis in a Jurassic ammonite	1
A revised calcareous nannofossil biozonation for the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian–Lower Pliensbachian) of NW Europe	1
The earliest calcified cyanobacteria from the Cambrian Terreneuvian at the western margin of the Yangtze Plate, China	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
Ecophenotypic variation in the rudist bivalve Polyconites hadriani on an Aptian platform-slope facies gradient from the western Maestrat Basin, eastern Iberia	1
Mandibular force profiles of Alioramini (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) with implications for palaeoecology of this unique lineage of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs	1
Palaeoenvironments, stratigraphy and taphonomy of an Upper Triassic vertebrate-bearing unit, Silves Group, central Algarve, southern Portugal	1
Oichnus Bromley as evidence of predator presence in the Canadian High Arctic	1
The role of siliceous sponges in the pre-Eocene marine Si cycle as a Si source – a case study from a carbonate environment	1
Biostratigraphical significance of a new trilobite fauna from the Harkless Formation (upper Stage 4, Series 2, Cambrian), Nevada, USA	1
Fate of calcareous nannofossils during the Rhaetian (Late Triassic): evidence from the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	1