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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A new species of Cretaceoushormiops from the mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae)	14
Morphology of the stem group echinoids Lepidocentrus eifelianus and Rhenechinus hopstaetteri from the Devonian of the Eifel region, Germany	13
On the dimorphic occurrence of the upper Tithonian ammonite genus Djurjuriceras Roman from the Blue Nile Basin (Ethiopia)	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.	12
The oldest representative of the tribe Paederini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	9
A review of the Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) species Paraxelcana coronakanthodis, Letoelcana artemisapollonque and Trigonelca jennywinterae Schall et al., 2023	9
Latest Triassic (Sevatian–Rhaetian) reef carbonates from the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria), their mollusc dwellers, and their fate at the end-Triassic extinction event	9
Enigmatic fragment possibly marks the first pterosaur record from the Lower Toarcian of Grimmen, NE Germany	8
Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)	8
Unusual larviform beetles in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber resemble immatures of trilobite beetles and fireflies	8
Retiolitid graptolites from the collection of Hermann Jaeger III. Paraplectograptus, Gothograptus and their relatives	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	7
Cheilostome bryozoan epibiosis on brachyuran crabs in the Paratethys Sea during the late Badenian (middle Miocene)	7
The oldest simosaurids (Anisian of Israel): implications for the paleobiogeographic and stratigraphic distributions of the group	7
Preface: Palaeontological papers written in honour of Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig, a tribute and memorial	6
A new deep-marine elasmobranch fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Bergen (Bavaria, Germany) dominated by squaliform sharks	6
A skeleton of Cuvierimops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the lower Oligocene (Rupelian) of Céreste, southern France	5
Braincase and digital endocast of a loricatan pseudosuchian (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia (Canada)	5
Late Pennsylvanian (Gzhelian) Tubiphytes reef in southern Guizhou Province, China: new insights into a peculiar reef-building association and paleoenvironment changes	5
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	5
Redescription of the actinopterygian fish Westollia crassa (Pohlig, 1892) (Aeduellidae) from the Permian sediments of Thuringia and its relationships to other Aeduellidae	5
A new alcyonacean octocoral (Anthozoa) from the Late Silurian of Gotland, Sweden	4
Bioerosion and encrustation signatures on Crassostrea gryphoides (von Schlotheim) from the Miocene Raghama Formation, northwest Saudi Arabia: description and paleoenvironmental implications	4
The first cetacean from the early Oligocene of the SW German Mainz Basin: a probable cheek tooth of a mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea)	4
Trigonotarbids (Arachnida) hidden in plant debris from a Late Pennsylvanian tropical forest at El Bierzo, Castilla y León, Spain	4

Special Issue: 19th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Cologne 2019. Palaeontological contributions	4
A new papionin molar (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Serbia	4
Fusulinid biozonation of the Bashkirian–Moscovian successions from the Hadim Nappe, central Taurides, southern Turkey	4
Frog crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Raninoidea) from lower Eocene coral reef environments of the Serraduy Formation (Southern Pyrenees, Huesca, Spain)	4
†Propercarina occidentalis, sp. nov., a new percomorph from the Oligocene of the Unterfeld (“Frauenweiler”) clay pit, and its relationships to Stromateoidei	4
Fossils of the megatoothed shark Otodus (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) from Washington State, USA	3
Fruit taphonomy and origin of hollow goethite spherulites in lacustrine sediments of the Maastrichtian Whitemud Formation, western Canada	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
A taxonomic and paleoecological review of the Rhaetian chondrichthyan fauna of Bonenburg (NRW) Germany	3
Is Hippopotamus antiquus (Mammalia, Hippopotamidae) affected by body size variations? The contribution of the Mosbach (Germany, Middle Pleistocene) specimen	3
A new genus and species of Galeritidae (Echinoidea, Echinoneoida) from the Upper Campanian (Cretaceous) of N Germany	3
The fossil record of ungulates from the late Pleistocene locality of Melitzia cave, Mani Peninsula, Greece	3
The ostracod genus Eucytherura G.W. Müller and the ‘Cythere complexa Brady’ problem	3
Re-evaluation of the Devonian ichthyofaunal assemblage from Lithuania and Belarus	3
A new Mesozoic scorpion from the Besano Formation (Middle Triassic, Monte San Giorgio UNESCO WHL), Italy	3
Multiple skeletons of Rhynchaeites from the London Clay reveal the osteology of early Eocene ibises (Aves, Threskiornithidae)	2
Source-to-sink in palynology: a Late Cretaceous case study—could the present be a key to the past?	2
Radiolarian cherts and associated siliceous rocks of the Rhenish Massif and Harz Mountains, lower Carboniferous (Mississippian), Germany	2
Peabody's legacy: the Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic, Anisian) tetrapod ichnofauna—updates from an extensive new tracksite in NE Arizona, USA	2
Diversity dynamics of handsome fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Endomychidae) during the Meso-Cenozoic period	2
A unique pericyclid from the Viséan of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) and other Helicocyclinae n. subfam. (Goniatitida)	2
First report of turtle and sauropod track assemblages from the Early Jurassic of Guizhou, China	2
Internal conulariid structures unveiled using µCT	2
Bohemicardia hainense (Maurer) revisted: insights into ontogeny and variability of a Devonian hippocardiid rostroconch (Conocardiida: Hippocardiidae)	2
The morphology and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl genus Cyclotosaurus with a focus on material from Germany	2
Early Pleistocene rhinoceroses (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from Northern Greece: biochronological and paleobiogeographic implications	2
Progress in the study of the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary sections in the Berchogur Depression (Mugodzhary Mountains, western Kazakhstan)	2
Echinoids from the Callovian of Wallücke (Wiehen Hills, W Germany): convergent adaptations to challenging conditions	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
A capercaillie (Phasianidae: Tetraonini) and a diver (Gaviidae)—unexpected large birds from the Lower Pleistocene of Crimea	2
New Archexyelinae (Hymenoptera: Xyelidae) from the Triassic Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan	2
First description of fossil remains of the giant mustelid Eomellivora (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Late Miocene of the Shouyang Basin (China)	2
Fossil traces of Osedax in dense whale ear bones and thoughts on potential further food sources	2
Mandibular and dental characteristics of the Late Jurassic mammal Henkelotherium guimarotae (Paurodontidae, Dryolestida)	2
A tiny fossil representative of Insecta from the Permian with an unusually regularly segmented trunk	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
Correction: 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 digging theropod? Enigmatic ankylosed phalanges from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan	1
Evolutionary implications from the tubarium construction of the Retiolitinae (Graptolithina) across the Silurian Cyrtograptus lundgreni extinction event	1
The first Palaeozoic spider (Arachnida: Araneae) from Germany	1
An early Eocene fish assemblage associated with a barite deposit in the lower part of the Crescent Formation, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA	1
Disparate occurrences of a chalicotheriine and a schizotheriine chalicothere (Mammalia, Chalicotheriidae) at the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Germany)	1
New occurrence of the Late Jurassic Xenoxylon wood in the Sichuan Basin, southern China: wood anatomy, and paleobiodiversity implications	1
A new species and the earliest occurrence of the Gnathosaurinae (Pterosauria) from the Late Kimmeridgian of Brunn, Germany	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 genus of the family Spathiopterygidae (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	1
A paedomorphic dwarf species, Gauthieria pumilio sp. nov. (Echinoidea: Phymosomatidae), from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Hannover, Germany	1
Body reconstruction, taxonomy, and biostratigraphy of a ‘problematic’ chancelloriid	1

Discovering a new fossil chironomid from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese Amber: Electroneura pinhoi sp. nov. Amaral, Silva & Baranov (Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)	1
A new conulariid from the Upper Mississippian (early Serpukhovian) of Central Russia (Moscow Basin): systematics, microstructure, and growth abnormalities	1
Graptolites (Graptolithina) from the Dapingian Arienigraptus hastatus Biozone of Newfoundland	1
Hyaenodonta from the Middle to Late Miocene deposits of the Siwaliks of Pakistan with a brief account of Indian subcontinent hyaenodonts	1
Diversity and variability of grylloblattidan insects (Grylloblattida) from the early Permian Meisenheim Formation of the Saar-Nahe Basin (SW-Germany)	1
George Demetrius Sevastopulo (1941–2021), palaeontologist and stratigrapher: an appreciation	1
New records of Bison (Mammalia: Bovidae) from Southern Mexico and some comments on their distribution and biochronology	1
Did stalked echinoderms bioerode calcareous substrates? A possible boring crinoid attachment structure in a stromatoporoid from the early Silurian (Telychian) of Estonia	1
Cymbospondylus (Ichthyopterygia) from the Early Triassic of Svalbard and the early evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs	1
A new basal zatracheid temnospondyl from the early Permian Chemnitz Fossil Lagerstätte, central-east Germany	1
Late Early Devonian ostracodes from the Torkoz area (SW Morocco) and the Emsian/Eifelian boundary	1
The pterosaurs of the Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco	1
New bovid fossils from the Dhok Pathan, Middle Siwalik subgroup of Pakistan	1
The age of the Bailongbinghe Formation and the oil shales in northern Qiangtang (North Tibet)	1
The tailbend of Metriorhynchidae (Crocodylia: Thalattosuchia) measurements, limits and paleoecological implications	1
First Eocene record of a bangialean rhodophyte (the endolithic microboring Conchocelichnus seilacheri) and coralline red algae from the Pacific Coast of North America	1
The 5th Palaeontological Virtual Congress: Building a Global Community Without Borders (1st part)	1
Reborn from the ashes: revision of Beurlenia araripensis Martins-Neto and Mezzalira, 1991 (Crustacea: Decapoda)	1
The earliest true Spirorbinae from the late Bathonian and Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of France, Israel and Madagascar	1
Upper Ordovician (Hirnantian) to lower Silurian (Aeronian) graptolite biostratigraphy of the Dingjiapo section, Hubei Province, China and its implications	1
Brachiopods from the Early Carboniferous Erdbach limestones in Hesse (Germany, Kulm Basin)	1
A new sponge genus from the Chengjiang biota with an intriguing combination of skeletal characters	1
A re-description of the teleosauroid Macrospondylus bollensis (Jaeger, 1828) from the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Germany	1
Famennian (Late Devonian) conodonts of the genus Pelekysgnathus	1
Life in the pipe–zoobenthos in an eighteenth century water pipeline from Stralsund, north-eastern Germany	1
The first fossil false click beetle larva preserved in amber	1