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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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Thecate stem medusozoans (Cnidaria) from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota	19
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Analysing Thalattosuchia palaeobiodiversity through the prism of phylogenetic comparative methods	18
A peritidal Burgess‐Shale‐type fauna from the middle Cambrian of western Canada	18
Accelerations of the Phanerozoic biogeosystems	16
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Ventral organization of Jianfengia multisegmentalis Hou, and its implications for the head segmentation of megacheirans	14
Morphological disparity trends in Devonian trilobites from North Africa	13
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Mouthpart morphology and feeding structures in the palaeocharinid trigonotarbids of the Rhynie chert: insights from comparisons to modern arachnids	11
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Ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing and conch shape in the Late Cretaceous gaudryceratid ammonoids: implications for their post‐embryonic palaeoecology	11
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Taxic and morphological diversification during the early radiation of Clupeomorpha (Actinopterygii, Teleostei)	10
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Is there synchronicity between brachiopod diversity changes and palaeobiogeographical shifts across the Late Ordovician mass extinction?	9
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Revealing the use of dental indices to infer taxonomic variation in sauropod dinosaurs	9
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Lasanius, an exceptionally preserved Silurian jawless fish from Scotland	8
Rise and fall of the phacopids: the morphological history of a successful trilobite family	8
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem	8

Forged soft tissues revealed in the oldest fossil reptile from the early Permian of the Alps	8
Locomotory and morphological evolution of the earliest Silurian graptolite Demirastrites selected by hydrodynamics	8
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Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization	8
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A new method for extracting conodonts and radiolarians from chert with NaOH solution	8
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A new solution to an old riddle: elongate dinosaur tracks explained as deep penetration of the foot, not plantigrade locomotion	7
When is enough, enough? Questions of sampling in vertebrate ichnology	7
Response of Mediterranean Sea bivalves to Pliocene–Pleistocene environmental changes	7
Go large or go conical: allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachiopod	6
Extraordinarily early Venus' flower basket sponges (Hexactinellida, Euplectellidae) from the uppermost Ordovician Anji Biota, China	6
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Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs	6
Plant dispersal in the Devonian world (c. 419–359 Ma)	6
Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals	6
Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors	6
Quantitative plant taphonomy: the cosmopolitan Mesozoic fern Weichselia reticulata as a case study	6
Impact of environmental barriers on temnospondyl biogeography and dispersal during the Middle–Late Triassic	6
Eocene palaeoenvironments and palaeoceanography of areas adjacent to the Drake Passage: insights from dinoflagellate cyst analysis	6
The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system	6
Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland	6
Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition	6
Quantitative palaeobathymetric reconstructions based on foraminiferal proxies: a case study from the Neogene of south‐west Spain	6
Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa	6
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Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires	5
Exceptions to the temperature–size rule: no Lilliput Effect in end‐Permian ostracods (Crustacea) from Aras Valley (northwest Iran)	5
Contrasting patterns of disparity suggest differing constraints on the evolution of trilobite cephalic structures during the Cambrian ‘explosion’	5
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Unique damage‐related, gap‐filling tooth replacement in pycnodont fishes	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
Morphological trends in reticulate Nummulites across the Eocene–Oligocene transition	4
Skin patterning and internal anatomy in a fossil moonfish from the Eocene Bolca Lagerstätte illuminate the ecology of ancient reef fish communities	4
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Dinosaurian survivorship schedules revisited: new insights from an age‐structured population model	4
Machine‐learning‐based morphological analyses of leaf epidermal cells in modern and fossil ginkgo and their implications for palaeoclimate studies	4
An early Cambrian polyp reveals a potential anemone‐like ancestor for medusozoan cnidarians	4
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Vital statistics, absolute abundance and preservation rate of Tyrannosaurus rex	3
The many ways toward punctuated evolution	3
Did the Late Ordovician mass extinction event trigger the earliest evolution of ‘strophodontoid’ brachiopods?	3
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Initial quantitative assessment of the enigmatic clade Paracrinoidea (Echinodermata)	3
How to engineer a habitable planet: the rise of marine ecosystem engineers through the Phanerozoic	3
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Computational fluid dynamics confirms drag reduction associated with trilobite queuing behaviour	3
Dryopithecine palaeobiodiversity in the Iberian Miocene revisited on the basis of molar endostructural morphology	3
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The effect of geological biases on our perception of early land plant radiation	2
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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	2
Correction to ‘Ecological novelty at the start of the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations of echinoderms’	2
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Osteohistology and taphonomy support social aggregation in the early ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus	2
Detection of intact polyene pigments in Miocene gastropod shells	2
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Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany	2
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Dental microwear texture analysis reveals a likely dietary shift within Late Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs	2
Correction to ‘Establishing temperate crustose early Holocene coralline algae as archives for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the shallow water habitats of the Mediterranean Sea’	2
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Understanding niche construction and phenotypic plasticity as causes of natural selection	2
How does rapid burial work? New insights from experiments with echinoderms	2
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia	1
Paradox lost: wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter‐feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates	1
Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage	1
Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes	1
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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	1
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms	1
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction	1
Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs	1
Ecosystem engineers alter the evolution of seed size by impacting fertility and the understory light environment	1
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Crypsis in the pelagic realm: evidence from exceptionally preserved fossil fish larvae from the Eocene Stolleklint Clay of Denmark	1
Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity	1
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Palaeobiology of the early sauropodomorph Mussaurus patagonicus inferred from its long bone histology	1
Phosphatic carapace of the waptiid arthropod Chuandianella ovata and biomineralization of ecdysozoans	1
High‐precision body mass predictors for small mammals: a case study in the Mesozoic	1
Human face‐off: a new method for mapping evolutionary rates on three‐dimensional digital models	1
Elevated evolutionary rates of biting biomechanics reveal patterns of extraordinary craniodental adaptations in some herbivorous dinosaurs	1
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	1
Trophic partitioning and feeding capacity in Permian bryozoan faunas of Gondwana	1