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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem	21
Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors	17
Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals	17
Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland	16
Correction to ‘Ecological novelty at the start of the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations of echinoderms’	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
Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany	14
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A new proteid salamander (Urodela, Proteidae) from the middle Miocene of Hambach (Germany) and implications for the evolution of the family	13
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia	12
Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage	11
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Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem	11
Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage	11
Crypsis in the pelagic realm: evidence from exceptionally preserved fossil fish larvae from the Eocene Stolleklint Clay of Denmark	11
Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger	10
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	10
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Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?	10
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Discovery of proteinaceous moieties in Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshell	9
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Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization	8
Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa	8
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The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system	8
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Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition	8
Locomotory and morphological evolution of the earliest Silurian graptolite Demirastrites selected by hydrodynamics	8
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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
Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires	7
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The many ways toward punctuated evolution	7
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Computational fluid dynamics confirms drag reduction associated with trilobite queuing behaviour	7
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
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	6
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms	6
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High‐precision body mass predictors for small mammals: a case study in the Mesozoic	6
An Appalachian population of neochoristoderes (Diapsida, Choristodera) elucidated using fossil evidence and ecological niche modelling	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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Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity	6
The utility of probability plotting in palaeobiology	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	5
Finite element and microstructural analyses indicate that pteraspid heterostracan oral plate microstructure was adapted to a mechanical function	5
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Developmental models shed light on the earliest dental tissues, using Astraspis as an example	5
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A coherent biogeographical framework for Old World Neogene and Pleistocene mammals	4
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Extraordinarily early Venus' flower basket sponges (Hexactinellida, Euplectellidae) from the uppermost Ordovician Anji Biota, China	4
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Lasanius, an exceptionally preserved Silurian jawless fish from Scotland	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	3

Exceptions to the temperature–size rule: no Lilliput Effect in end‐Permian ostracods (Crustacea) from Aras Valley (northwest Iran)	3
Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic	3
Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous	3
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How does rapid burial work? New insights from experiments with echinoderms	3
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Human face‐off: a new method for mapping evolutionary rates on three‐dimensional digital models	3
Initial quantitative assessment of the enigmatic clade Paracrinoidea (Echinodermata)	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
Revealing the use of dental indices to infer taxonomic variation in sauropod dinosaurs	3
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Contrasting patterns of disparity suggest differing constraints on the evolution of trilobite cephalic structures during the Cambrian ‘explosion’	3
Response of Mediterranean Sea bivalves to Pliocene–Pleistocene environmental changes	2
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Diversification dynamics of cheilostome bryozoans based on a Bayesian analysis of the fossil record	2
Pachyosteosclerosis, rhamphotheca and enhanced sensory capabilities of the premaxillae of Hyperodapedon (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria): implications for foraging at the sediment–water interf	2
An efficient method for estimating vein density ofGlossopterisand its application	2
Rise and fall of the phacopids: the morphological history of a successful trilobite family	2
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Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs	2
When is enough, enough? Questions of sampling in vertebrate ichnology	2
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On the estimation of body mass in temnospondyls: a case study using the large‐bodied Eryops and Paracyclotosaurus	2
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Morphological disparity and evolutionary rates of cranial and postcranial characters in sloths (Mammalia, Pilosa, Folivora)	2
Slow and fast evolutionary rates in the history of lepidosaurs	2
Ventral organization of Jianfengia multisegmentalis Hou, and its implications for the head segmentation of megacheirans	2
Analysing Thalattosuchia palaeobiodiversity through the prism of phylogenetic comparative methods	2
How to date a crocodile: estimation of neosuchian clade ages and a comparison of four time‐scaling methods	2
One million years of diversity shifts in amphibians and reptiles in a Mediterranean landscape: resilience rules the Quaternary	2
Ontogeny and evolution of the elasmosaurid neck highlight greater diversity of Antarctic plesiosaurians	2
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Tooth development in the Early Devonian sarcopterygian Powichthys and the evolution of the crown osteichthyan dentition	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