OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palaeontology is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors	22
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem	21
Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland	18
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Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals	16
Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany	15
Dinosaurian survivorship schedules revisited: new insights from an age‐structured population model	15
Plant dispersal in the Devonian world (c. 419–359 Ma)	14
Correction to ‘Ecological novelty at the start of the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations of echinoderms’	14
Written in bones: palaeoclimate histotaphonomic history inferred from a complete Megatherium skeleton preserved in the Atacama Desert	13
A new proteid salamander (Urodela, Proteidae) from the middle Miocene of Hambach (Germany) and implications for the evolution of the family	13
Negative ontogenetic allometry of cardinal spines in the early Cambrian arthropod Isoxys volucris indicates their defensive function	13
Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage	12
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
Crypsis in the pelagic realm: evidence from exceptionally preserved fossil fish larvae from the Eocene Stolleklint Clay of Denmark	11
Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage	11
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia	11
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Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?	10
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Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem	10
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Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger	9

Standing giants: a digital biomechanical model for bipedal postures in sauropod dinosaurs	9
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The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system	8
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Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa	7
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Correction to ‘Establishing temperate crustose early Holocene coralline algae as archives for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the shallow water habitats of the Mediterranean Sea’	7
Locomotory and morphological evolution of the earliest Silurian graptolite Demirastrites selected by hydrodynamics	7
Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization	7
Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires	7
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Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition	7
The many ways toward punctuated evolution	7
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Machine‐learning‐based morphological analyses of leaf epidermal cells in modern and fossil ginkgo and their implications for palaeoclimate studies	6
Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs	6
Developmental models shed light on the earliest dental tissues, using Astraspis as an example	6
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High‐precision body mass predictors for small mammals: a case study in the Mesozoic	6
Paradox lost: wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter‐feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates	6
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	6
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The utility of probability plotting in palaeobiology	5
Convergent evolution among non‐carnivorous, desert‐dwelling theropods as revealed by the dentary of the noasaurid Berthasaura leopoldinae (Cretaceous of Brazil)	5
Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity	5
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms	5
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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	5
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene	5
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Revealing the use of dental indices to infer taxonomic variation in sauropod dinosaurs	4
Lasanius, an exceptionally preserved Silurian jawless fish from Scotland	4
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Finite element and microstructural analyses indicate that pteraspid heterostracan oral plate microstructure was adapted to a mechanical function	4
A coherent biogeographical framework for Old World Neogene and Pleistocene mammals	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
The conundrum of taxonomic uniformitarianism in planktic foraminifera	4
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Extraordinarily early Venus' flower basket sponges (Hexactinellida, Euplectellidae) from the uppermost Ordovician Anji Biota, China	4
How does rapid burial work? New insights from experiments with echinoderms	4
Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic	3
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Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous	3
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Exceptions to the temperature–size rule: no Lilliput Effect in end‐Permian ostracods (Crustacea) from Aras Valley (northwest Iran)	3
Human face‐off: a new method for mapping evolutionary rates on three‐dimensional digital models	3
Diversification and disparity in a major Palaeozoic clade of Brachiopoda: the rise and fall of the Plectambonitoidea	3
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	3
Contrasting patterns of disparity suggest differing constraints on the evolution of trilobite cephalic structures during the Cambrian ‘explosion’	3
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Pachyosteosclerosis, rhamphotheca and enhanced sensory capabilities of the premaxillae of Hyperodapedon (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria): implications for foraging at the sediment–water interf	3
Initial quantitative assessment of the enigmatic clade Paracrinoidea (Echinodermata)	3
How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size	2
An efficient method for estimating vein density ofGlossopterisand its application	2
Response of Mediterranean Sea bivalves to Pliocene–Pleistocene environmental changes	2
Middle Pleistocene revelations: unravelling taphonomic processes in mammals including Mesotherium cristatum (Mesotheriidae, Notoungulata), Corralito Site, Córdoba Province, Argentina	2
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Ventral organization of Jianfengia multisegmentalis Hou, and its implications for the head segmentation of megacheirans	2
Slow and fast evolutionary rates in the history of lepidosaurs	2
Diversification dynamics of cheilostome bryozoans based on a Bayesian analysis of the fossil record	2
On the estimation of body mass in temnospondyls: a case study using the large‐bodied Eryops and Paracyclotosaurus	2
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Mouthpart morphology and feeding structures in the palaeocharinid trigonotarbids of the Rhynie chert: insights from comparisons to modern arachnids	2
Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs	2
Rise and fall of the phacopids: the morphological history of a successful trilobite family	2
How to date a crocodile: estimation of neosuchian clade ages and a comparison of four time‐scaling methods	2
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Ontogeny and evolution of the elasmosaurid neck highlight greater diversity of Antarctic plesiosaurians	2
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Understanding niche construction and phenotypic plasticity as causes of natural selection	2
Morphological disparity and evolutionary rates of cranial and postcranial characters in sloths (Mammalia, Pilosa, Folivora)	2
Analysing Thalattosuchia palaeobiodiversity through the prism of phylogenetic comparative methods	2
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