OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palaeontology 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.)

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Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland	25
Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors	23
Oldest winged insects: first Megasecoptera from the early Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) of Argentina	21
Phyllosphere fungi of Middle Jurassic gymnosperms from Poland	20
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem	18
Correction to ‘Ecological novelty at the start of the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations of echinoderms’	17
Negative ontogenetic allometry of cardinal spines in the early Cambrian arthropod Isoxys volucris indicates their defensive function	16
Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany	16
Plant dispersal in the Devonian world (c. 419–359 Ma)	15
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Written in bones: palaeoclimate histotaphonomic history inferred from a complete Megatherium skeleton preserved in the Atacama Desert	14
Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage	14
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia	13
Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage	12
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Standing giants: a digital biomechanical model for bipedal postures in sauropod dinosaurs	11
Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem	11
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Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger	11
Stuck in the mud: experimental taphonomy and computed tomography demonstrate the critical role of sediment in stabilizing the three‐dimensional external morphology of arthropod carcasses during early	11
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Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?	10

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The role of substrate in determining the dominance of immobile, epifaunal bivalves in the Late Cretaceous	9
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The effects of sensitive environmental indicators in interpreting faunas of the past: a case study from the Jurassic of China	9
Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition	8
Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa	8
The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system	8
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Locomotory and morphological evolution of the earliest Silurian graptolite Demirastrites selected by hydrodynamics	8
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The many ways toward punctuated evolution	7
Machine‐learning‐based morphological analyses of leaf epidermal cells in modern and fossil ginkgo and their implications for palaeoclimate studies	7
Correction to ‘Establishing temperate crustose early Holocene coralline algae as archives for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the shallow water habitats of the Mediterranean Sea’	7
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Microstructural and geochemical evidence offers a solution to the cephalopod cameral deposits riddle	7
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Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires	7
Functional morphology and biomechanics of an ontogenetic series of the Triassic cynodont Brasilodon quadrangularis and bite performance in the sister tax	7
Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs	6
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Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms	6
I believe I can fly… New implications for the mode of life and palaeoecology of the Late Triassic Ozimek volans based on its unique long bone histology	6
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	6
High‐precision body mass predictors for small mammals: a case study in the Mesozoic	6
Developmental models shed light on the earliest dental tissues, using Astraspis as an example	6
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene	6
Paradox lost: wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter‐feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates	6
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Climatic niche stability and lability in Holarctic non‐marine ostracods: implications for Quaternary palaeoclimate reconstruction	5
Convergent evolution among non‐carnivorous, desert‐dwelling theropods as revealed by the dentary of the noasaurid Berthasaura leopoldinae (Cretaceous of Brazil)	5
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The utility of probability plotting in palaeobiology	5
Finite element and microstructural analyses indicate that pteraspid heterostracan oral plate microstructure was adapted to a mechanical function	5
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Extraordinarily early Venus' flower basket sponges (Hexactinellida, Euplectellidae) from the uppermost Ordovician Anji Biota, China	4
The conundrum of taxonomic uniformitarianism in planktic foraminifera	4
Contrasting patterns of disparity suggest differing constraints on the evolution of trilobite cephalic structures during the Cambrian ‘explosion’	4
Revealing the use of dental indices to infer taxonomic variation in sauropod dinosaurs	4
A coherent biogeographical framework for Old World Neogene and Pleistocene mammals	4
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Lasanius, an exceptionally preserved Silurian jawless fish from Scotland	4

Initial quantitative assessment of the enigmatic clade Paracrinoidea (Echinodermata)	4
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Ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing and conch shape in the Late Cretaceous gaudryceratid ammonoids: implications for their post‐embryonic palaeoecology	4
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Exceptions to the temperature–size rule: no Lilliput Effect in end‐Permian ostracods (Crustacea) from Aras Valley (northwest Iran)	4
How long does a brachiopod shell last on a seafloor? Modern mid‐bathyal environments as taphonomic analogues of continental shelves prior to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution	4
Pachyosteosclerosis, rhamphotheca and enhanced sensory capabilities of the premaxillae of Hyperodapedon (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria): implications for foraging at the sediment–water interf	3
Diversification dynamics of cheilostome bryozoans based on a Bayesian analysis of the fossil record	3
Diversification and disparity in a major Palaeozoic clade of Brachiopoda: the rise and fall of the Plectambonitoidea	3
How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size	3
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Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic	3
ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological, and climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework	3
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On the estimation of body mass in temnospondyls: a case study using the large‐bodied Eryops and Paracyclotosaurus	3
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology	3
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How does rapid burial work? New insights from experiments with echinoderms	3
Ontogeny and evolution of the elasmosaurid neck highlight greater diversity of Antarctic plesiosaurians	3
Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous	3
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Rise and fall of the phacopids: the morphological history of a successful trilobite family	2
Analysing Thalattosuchia palaeobiodiversity through the prism of phylogenetic comparative methods	2
A new insect boring in fossil wood from the Iranian Upper Cretaceous	2
Morphological disparity and evolutionary rates of cranial and postcranial characters in sloths (Mammalia, Pilosa, Folivora)	2
An efficient method for estimating vein density ofGlossopterisand its application	2
How to date a crocodile: estimation of neosuchian clade ages and a comparison of four time‐scaling methods	2
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Response of Mediterranean Sea bivalves to Pliocene–Pleistocene environmental changes	2
Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs	2
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Middle Pleistocene revelations: unravelling taphonomic processes in mammals including Mesotherium cristatum (Mesotheriidae, Notoungulata), Corralito Site, Córdoba Province, Argentina	1
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For a while, crocodile: crocodylomorph resilience to mass extinctions	1
Eocene palaeoenvironments and palaeoceanography of areas adjacent to the Drake Passage: insights from dinoflagellate cyst analysis	1
Ventral organization of Jianfengia multisegmentalis Hou, and its implications for the head segmentation of megacheirans	1
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Mouthpart morphology and feeding structures in the palaeocharinid trigonotarbids of the Rhynie chert: insights from comparisons to modern arachnids	1
The origin and evolutionary history of necrophagy in Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae): a comprehensive analysis of South American Coprinisphaera	1
Understanding niche construction and phenotypic plasticity as causes of natural selection	1
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How to engineer a habitable planet: the rise of marine ecosystem engineers through the Phanerozoic	1
New anatomical details concerning the cranial structure of the early Permian stem reptile Protorothyris archeri revealed by μCT<	1
Ecosystem engineers alter the evolution of seed size by impacting fertility and the understory light environment	1