Palaeontology

Papers
(The TQCC of Palaeontology is 5. 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 factors22
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem21
Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland18
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Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals16
Preservational modes of some ichthyosaur soft tissues (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany15
Dinosaurian survivorship schedules revisited: new insights from an age‐structured population model15
Correction to ‘Ecological novelty at the start of the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations of echinoderms’14
Plant dispersal in the Devonian world (c. 419–359 Ma)14
Negative ontogenetic allometry of cardinal spines in the early Cambrian arthropod Isoxys volucris indicates their defensive function13
Written in bones: palaeoclimate histotaphonomic history inferred from a complete Megatherium skeleton preserved in the Atacama Desert13
A new proteid salamander (Urodela, Proteidae) from the middle Miocene of Hambach (Germany) and implications for the evolution of the family13
Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage12
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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 Denmark11
Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage11
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia11
Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem10
Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?10
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Standing giants: a digital biomechanical model for bipedal postures in sauropod dinosaurs9
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Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger9
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The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system8
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Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition7
The many ways toward punctuated evolution7
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Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa7
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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 hydrodynamics7
Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization7
Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires7
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction6
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Machine‐learning‐based morphological analyses of leaf epidermal cells in modern and fossil ginkgo and their implications for palaeoclimate studies6
Deep origin of the crossed‐lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs6
Developmental models shed light on the earliest dental tissues, using Astraspis as an example6
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High‐precision body mass predictors for small mammals: a case study in the Mesozoic6
Paradox lost: wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter‐feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates6
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 histology5
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene5
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The utility of probability plotting in palaeobiology5
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 disparity5
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms5
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