OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of PalZ 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
On the dimorphic occurrence of the upper Tithonian ammonite genus Djurjuriceras Roman from the Blue Nile Basin (Ethiopia)	55
A new species of Cretaceoushormiops from the mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae)	22
Morphology of the stem group echinoids Lepidocentrus eifelianus and Rhenechinus hopstaetteri from the Devonian of the Eifel region, Germany	20
Latest Triassic (Sevatian–Rhaetian) reef carbonates from the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria), their mollusc dwellers, and their fate at the end-Triassic extinction event	18
Diversity of gobioid fishes in the late middle Miocene of northern Moldova, Eastern Paratethys—Part II: description of †Moldavigobius helenae gen. et sp. nov.	17
Unusual larviform beetles in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber resemble immatures of trilobite beetles and fireflies	16
Ooids forming in situ within microbial mats (Kiritimati atoll, central Pacific)	14
The first fossils of the most basal pseudoscorpion family (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Pseudotyrannochthoniidae): evidence for major biogeographical shifts in the European paleofauna	13
Enigmatic fragment possibly marks the first pterosaur record from the Lower Toarcian of Grimmen, NE Germany	12
Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)	11
Retiolitid graptolites from the collection of Hermann Jaeger III. Paraplectograptus, Gothograptus and their relatives	11
Cheilostome bryozoan epibiosis on brachyuran crabs in the Paratethys Sea during the late Badenian (middle Miocene)	11
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	11
Morphology and ecology of the bradoriid arthropods Spinospitella and Nikolarites from the Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia)	10
Preface: Palaeontological papers written in honour of Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig, a tribute and memorial	10
A reevaluation of the Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksite Barkhausen (Wiehengebirge, Northern Germany)	10
A new deep-marine elasmobranch fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Bergen (Bavaria, Germany) dominated by squaliform sharks	10
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	8
Semicosciniid bryozoans from the Middle Devonian of Rommersheim (Eifel, Germany)	8
Late Pennsylvanian (Gzhelian) Tubiphytes reef in southern Guizhou Province, China: new insights into a peculiar reef-building association and paleoenvironment changes	8
Redescription of the actinopterygian fish Westollia crassa (Pohlig, 1892) (Aeduellidae) from the Permian sediments of Thuringia and its relationships to other Aeduellidae	8
Fusulinid biozonation of the Bashkirian–Moscovian successions from the Hadim Nappe, central Taurides, southern Turkey	7
The first cetacean from the early Oligocene of the SW German Mainz Basin: a probable cheek tooth of a mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea)	7
Eocene tube-dwelling annelids (Polychaeta: Sedentaria) from the Black Hills, western Washington State: the first record of Neodexiospira from North America	7
A new alcyonacean octocoral (Anthozoa) from the Late Silurian of Gotland, Sweden	7

A new papionin molar (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Serbia	6
The ostracod genus Eucytherura G.W. Müller and the ‘Cythere complexa Brady’ problem	6
Is Hippopotamus antiquus (Mammalia, Hippopotamidae) affected by body size variations? The contribution of the Mosbach (Germany, Middle Pleistocene) specimen	6
Special Issue: 19th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Cologne 2019. Palaeontological contributions	6
Morphological analysis of Cricetodon aliveriensis (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the locality of Karydia (Rhodope, Northern Greece)	6
Bioerosion and encrustation signatures on Crassostrea gryphoides (von Schlotheim) from the Miocene Raghama Formation, northwest Saudi Arabia: description and paleoenvironmental implications	6
Fruit taphonomy and origin of hollow goethite spherulites in lacustrine sediments of the Maastrichtian Whitemud Formation, western Canada	6
The fossil record of ungulates from the late Pleistocene locality of Melitzia cave, Mani Peninsula, Greece	5
Bohemicardia hainense (Maurer) revisted: insights into ontogeny and variability of a Devonian hippocardiid rostroconch (Conocardiida: Hippocardiidae)	5
Two passeriform birds (Aves: Passeriformes) from the Middle Miocene of Austria	5
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	5
A new Mesozoic scorpion from the Besano Formation (Middle Triassic, Monte San Giorgio UNESCO WHL), Italy	4
Exceptionally preserved extracellular bone matrix proteins from the late Neogene proboscidean Anancus (Mammalia: Proboscidea)	4
Internal conulariid structures unveiled using µCT	4
A new species of swift (Aves, Apodidae) from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa	4
Multiple skeletons of Rhynchaeites from the London Clay reveal the osteology of early Eocene ibises (Aves, Threskiornithidae)	4
First Eugereonidae (Insecta: Palaeodictyoptera) from the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) of the Piesberg site near Osnabrück, Germany	4
New Archexyelinae (Hymenoptera: Xyelidae) from the Triassic Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan	4
Eifelosaurus triadicus Jaekel, 1904, a “forgotten” reptile from the Upper Buntsandstein (Triassic: Anisian) of the Eifel region, Germany	4
New thyreophoran dinosaur material from the Early Jurassic of northeastern Germany	4
Diversity of gobioid fishes in the late middle Miocene of northern Moldova, Eastern Paratethys – part I: an extinct clade of Lesueurigobius look-alikes	4
Radiolarian cherts and associated siliceous rocks of the Rhenish Massif and Harz Mountains, lower Carboniferous (Mississippian), Germany	4
The locomotory apparatus and paraxial swimming in fossil and living marine reptiles: comparing Nothosauroidea, Plesiosauria, and Chelonioidea	4