OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lethaia 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 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
How microbes replaced metazoans in reef ecosystem during the Late Devonian mass extinction: new insights from platform facies in South China	10
Silicified pedunculate kutorginate brachiopods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) of Jordan	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
Linear morphometry and shell growth of the bivalve Tagelus plebeius as an indicator for salinity in Holocene South American estuaries	7
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
A micropalaeontological record of the Early Cretaceous marine-terrestrial interface in central Europe	6
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	6
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
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
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
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