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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Thecate stem medusozoans (Cnidaria) from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota19
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Analysing Thalattosuchia palaeobiodiversity through the prism of phylogenetic comparative methods18
A peritidal Burgess‐Shale‐type fauna from the middle Cambrian of western Canada18
Accelerations of the Phanerozoic biogeosystems16
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Ventral organization of Jianfengia multisegmentalis Hou, and its implications for the head segmentation of megacheirans14
Morphological disparity trends in Devonian trilobites from North Africa13
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Mouthpart morphology and feeding structures in the palaeocharinid trigonotarbids of the Rhynie chert: insights from comparisons to modern arachnids11
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Ontogenetic trajectories of septal spacing and conch shape in the Late Cretaceous gaudryceratid ammonoids: implications for their post‐embryonic palaeoecology11
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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 dinosaurs9
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Lasanius, an exceptionally preserved Silurian jawless fish from Scotland8
Rise and fall of the phacopids: the morphological history of a successful trilobite family8
Decoding the drivers of deep‐time wetland biodiversity: insights from an early Permian tropical lake ecosystem8
Forged soft tissues revealed in the oldest fossil reptile from the early Permian of the Alps8
Locomotory and morphological evolution of the earliest Silurian graptolite Demirastrites selected by hydrodynamics8
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Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization8
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A new method for extracting conodonts and radiolarians from chert with NaOH solution8
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A new solution to an old riddle: elongate dinosaur tracks explained as deep penetration of the foot, not plantigrade locomotion7
When is enough, enough? Questions of sampling in vertebrate ichnology7
Response of Mediterranean Sea bivalves to Pliocene–Pleistocene environmental changes7
Go large or go conical: allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachiopod6
Extraordinarily early Venus' flower basket sponges (Hexactinellida, Euplectellidae) from the uppermost Ordovician Anji Biota, China6
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Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs6
Plant dispersal in the Devonian world (c. 419–359 Ma)6
Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals6
Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors6
Quantitative plant taphonomy: the cosmopolitan Mesozoic fern Weichselia reticulata as a case study6
Impact of environmental barriers on temnospondyl biogeography and dispersal during the Middle–Late Triassic6
Eocene palaeoenvironments and palaeoceanography of areas adjacent to the Drake Passage: insights from dinoflagellate cyst analysis6
The endocast of Euparkeria sheds light on the ancestral archosaur nervous system6
Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland6
Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition6
Quantitative palaeobathymetric reconstructions based on foraminiferal proxies: a case study from the Neogene of south‐west Spain6
Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa6
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Cranial endocast of Anagale gobiensis (Anagalidae) and its implications for early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires5
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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