OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of PalZ 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
A new species of Cretaceoushormiops from the mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae)	16
Morphology of the stem group echinoids Lepidocentrus eifelianus and Rhenechinus hopstaetteri from the Devonian of the Eifel region, Germany	14
On the dimorphic occurrence of the upper Tithonian ammonite genus Djurjuriceras Roman from the Blue Nile Basin (Ethiopia)	13
Latest Triassic (Sevatian–Rhaetian) reef carbonates from the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria), their mollusc dwellers, and their fate at the end-Triassic extinction event	12
Diversity of gobioid fishes in the late middle Miocene of northern Moldova, Eastern Paratethys—Part II: description of †Moldavigobius helenae gen. et sp. nov.	11
Enigmatic fragment possibly marks the first pterosaur record from the Lower Toarcian of Grimmen, NE Germany	9
Unusual larviform beetles in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber resemble immatures of trilobite beetles and fireflies	9
Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)	8
A new holocrinid sea lily from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Qingyan, south-western China, and the morphological variability of the distal nodal facets in the genus Holocrinus	8
Retiolitid graptolites from the collection of Hermann Jaeger III. Paraplectograptus, Gothograptus and their relatives	8
Cheilostome bryozoan epibiosis on brachyuran crabs in the Paratethys Sea during the late Badenian (middle Miocene)	8
Braincase and digital endocast of a loricatan pseudosuchian (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia (Canada)	7
A new deep-marine elasmobranch fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Bergen (Bavaria, Germany) dominated by squaliform sharks	7
Redescription of the actinopterygian fish Westollia crassa (Pohlig, 1892) (Aeduellidae) from the Permian sediments of Thuringia and its relationships to other Aeduellidae	7
Preface: Palaeontological papers written in honour of Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig, a tribute and memorial	7
A skeleton of Cuvierimops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the lower Oligocene (Rupelian) of Céreste, southern France	7
Gross and microscopic anatomy of a tibia tentatively attributed to a cetacean from the Middle Eocene of Europe, with a note on the artiodactyl Anoplotherium and on the perissodactyl Lophiodon	7
Late Pennsylvanian (Gzhelian) Tubiphytes reef in southern Guizhou Province, China: new insights into a peculiar reef-building association and paleoenvironment changes	6
A new alcyonacean octocoral (Anthozoa) from the Late Silurian of Gotland, Sweden	5
A new papionin molar (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Serbia	5
Fusulinid biozonation of the Bashkirian–Moscovian successions from the Hadim Nappe, central Taurides, southern Turkey	5
The first cetacean from the early Oligocene of the SW German Mainz Basin: a probable cheek tooth of a mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea)	5
Eocene tube-dwelling annelids (Polychaeta: Sedentaria) from the Black Hills, western Washington State: the first record of Neodexiospira from North America	5
†Propercarina occidentalis, sp. nov., a new percomorph from the Oligocene of the Unterfeld (“Frauenweiler”) clay pit, and its relationships to Stromateoidei	4
The ostracod genus Eucytherura G.W. Müller and the ‘Cythere complexa Brady’ problem	4

Is Hippopotamus antiquus (Mammalia, Hippopotamidae) affected by body size variations? The contribution of the Mosbach (Germany, Middle Pleistocene) specimen	4
Frog crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Raninoidea) from lower Eocene coral reef environments of the Serraduy Formation (Southern Pyrenees, Huesca, Spain)	4
Semicosciniid bryozoans from the Middle Devonian of Rommersheim (Eifel, Germany)	4
Re-evaluation of the Devonian ichthyofaunal assemblage from Lithuania and Belarus	4
Special Issue: 19th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Cologne 2019. Palaeontological contributions	4
Trigonotarbids (Arachnida) hidden in plant debris from a Late Pennsylvanian tropical forest at El Bierzo, Castilla y León, Spain	4
A taxonomic and paleoecological review of the Rhaetian chondrichthyan fauna of Bonenburg (NRW) Germany	4
Bioerosion and encrustation signatures on Crassostrea gryphoides (von Schlotheim) from the Miocene Raghama Formation, northwest Saudi Arabia: description and paleoenvironmental implications	4
Morphological analysis of Cricetodon aliveriensis (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the locality of Karydia (Rhodope, Northern Greece)	3
Bohemicardia hainense (Maurer) revisted: insights into ontogeny and variability of a Devonian hippocardiid rostroconch (Conocardiida: Hippocardiidae)	3
Early Pleistocene rhinoceroses (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from Northern Greece: biochronological and paleobiogeographic implications	3
The fossil record of ungulates from the late Pleistocene locality of Melitzia cave, Mani Peninsula, Greece	3
Fruit taphonomy and origin of hollow goethite spherulites in lacustrine sediments of the Maastrichtian Whitemud Formation, western Canada	3
Multiple skeletons of Rhynchaeites from the London Clay reveal the osteology of early Eocene ibises (Aves, Threskiornithidae)	3
New Archexyelinae (Hymenoptera: Xyelidae) from the Triassic Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan	3
Fossils of the megatoothed shark Otodus (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) from Washington State, USA	3
New proboscidean specimens from the Late Miocene of Romania: the huge-sized deinothere Deinotherium proavum, the rare “Mammut” cf. obliquelophus and the first description of the shovel-tusker Konobelo	3
New thyreophoran dinosaur material from the Early Jurassic of northeastern Germany	3
A new Mesozoic scorpion from the Besano Formation (Middle Triassic, Monte San Giorgio UNESCO WHL), Italy	3
Progress in the study of the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary sections in the Berchogur Depression (Mugodzhary Mountains, western Kazakhstan)	2
A monospecific assemblage of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Subioblattidae) from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan	2
A new conulariid from the Upper Mississippian (early Serpukhovian) of Central Russia (Moscow Basin): systematics, microstructure, and growth abnormalities	2
First Eocene record of a bangialean rhodophyte (the endolithic microboring Conchocelichnus seilacheri) and coralline red algae from the Pacific Coast of North America	2
The age of the Bailongbinghe Formation and the oil shales in northern Qiangtang (North Tibet)	2
A unique pericyclid from the Viséan of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) and other Helicocyclinae n. subfam. (Goniatitida)	2
Radiolarian cherts and associated siliceous rocks of the Rhenish Massif and Harz Mountains, lower Carboniferous (Mississippian), Germany	2
Fossil traces of Osedax in dense whale ear bones and thoughts on potential further food sources	2
First description of fossil remains of the giant mustelid Eomellivora (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Late Miocene of the Shouyang Basin (China)	2
Historically transposed flipper pairs in a mounted plesiosaurian skeleton	2
New bovid fossils from the Dhok Pathan, Middle Siwalik subgroup of Pakistan	2
Echinoids from the Callovian of Wallücke (Wiehen Hills, W Germany): convergent adaptations to challenging conditions	2
A paedomorphic dwarf species, Gauthieria pumilio sp. nov. (Echinoidea: Phymosomatidae), from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Hannover, Germany	2
Mandibular and dental characteristics of the Late Jurassic mammal Henkelotherium guimarotae (Paurodontidae, Dryolestida)	2
A new lepisosteiform neopterygian (Actinopterygii) from the lower Toarcian Grimmen Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, Germany	2
Permian chondrichthyans from the Guadalupe Mountains National Park of West Texas (USA)	2
Internal conulariid structures unveiled using µCT	2
Placodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) dentaries from Winterswijk, The Netherlands (middle Anisian) and Hünfeld, Hesse, Germany (late Anisian) with comments on ontogenetic changes	2
Peabody's legacy: the Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic, Anisian) tetrapod ichnofauna—updates from an extensive new tracksite in NE Arizona, USA	2
Cymbospondylus (Ichthyopterygia) from the Early Triassic of Svalbard and the early evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs	2
The tailbend of Metriorhynchidae (Crocodylia: Thalattosuchia) measurements, limits and paleoecological implications	2
A digging theropod? Enigmatic ankylosed phalanges from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan	2
Diversity dynamics of handsome fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Endomychidae) during the Meso-Cenozoic period	2
First report of turtle and sauropod track assemblages from the Early Jurassic of Guizhou, China	2
New Ordovician hyolith Elegantilites custos sp. n. and the palaeogeographic and stratigraphic distribution of the genus Elegantilites Marek, 1966	2
A new species of swift (Aves, Apodidae) from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa	2
A capercaillie (Phasianidae: Tetraonini) and a diver (Gaviidae)—unexpected large birds from the Lower Pleistocene of Crimea	2
The morphology and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl genus Cyclotosaurus with a focus on material from Germany	2
A re-description of the teleosauroid Macrospondylus bollensis (Jaeger, 1828) from the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Germany	1
New Pliocene Rhinocerotidae findings from the Iberian Peninsula and the revision of the Spanish Pliocene records	1
Did stalked echinoderms bioerode calcareous substrates? A possible boring crinoid attachment structure in a stromatoporoid from the early Silurian (Telychian) of Estonia	1

A new sponge genus from the Chengjiang biota with an intriguing combination of skeletal characters	1
New records of Bison (Mammalia: Bovidae) from Southern Mexico and some comments on their distribution and biochronology	1
Discovering a new fossil chironomid from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese Amber: Electroneura pinhoi sp. nov. Amaral, Silva & Baranov (Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)	1
New occurrence of the Late Jurassic Xenoxylon wood in the Sichuan Basin, southern China: wood anatomy, and paleobiodiversity implications	1
Late Early Devonian ostracodes from the Torkoz area (SW Morocco) and the Emsian/Eifelian boundary	1
Moscovian–Kasimovian boundary conodont assemblages from the Kalinovo section, Donets Basin, Ukraine	1
New species of small foraminifers from the Mechetlino Quarry section (Southern Urals, Russia): a potential candidate for the GSSP of the lower boundary of the Global Kungurian Stage	1
The pterosaurs of the Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco	1
Reborn from the ashes: revision of Beurlenia araripensis Martins-Neto and Mezzalira, 1991 (Crustacea: Decapoda)	1
Diversity and variability of grylloblattidan insects (Grylloblattida) from the early Permian Meisenheim Formation of the Saar-Nahe Basin (SW-Germany)	1
Disparate occurrences of a chalicotheriine and a schizotheriine chalicothere (Mammalia, Chalicotheriidae) at the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Germany)	1
The first fossil false click beetle larva preserved in amber	1
Novel perspectives on Late Cretaceous elasmobranch diversity in the Southern Hemisphere high latitudes	1
Famennian (Late Devonian) conodonts of the genus Pelekysgnathus	1
A new basal zatracheid temnospondyl from the early Permian Chemnitz Fossil Lagerstätte, central-east Germany	1
The first fossil from the superdiverse clade Loricariinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae): a new species of the Armored Catfish from the late Miocene of Paraná, Argentina	1
Body reconstruction, taxonomy, and biostratigraphy of a ‘problematic’ chancelloriid	1
Oldest East Gondwanan pycnodont fishes (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Jaisalmer, western India	1
Life in the pipe–zoobenthos in an eighteenth century water pipeline from Stralsund, north-eastern Germany	1
George Demetrius Sevastopulo (1941–2021), palaeontologist and stratigrapher: an appreciation	1
Evolutionary implications from the tubarium construction of the Retiolitinae (Graptolithina) across the Silurian Cyrtograptus lundgreni extinction event	1
The earliest true Spirorbinae from the late Bathonian and Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of France, Israel and Madagascar	1
The first Palaeozoic spider (Arachnida: Araneae) from Germany	1
Brachiopods from the Early Carboniferous Erdbach limestones in Hesse (Germany, Kulm Basin)	1
Leg bones of the anseriform taxon Nettapterornis from the London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze and notes on the bony-toothed birds from this locality	1
A new species and the earliest occurrence of the Gnathosaurinae (Pterosauria) from the Late Kimmeridgian of Brunn, Germany	1
A new genus of the family Spathiopterygidae (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	1