Palaeontology

Papers
(The TQCC of Palaeontology is 6. 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 ecosystem21
Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors17
Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals17
Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland16
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 model15
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 Germany14
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A new proteid salamander (Urodela, Proteidae) from the middle Miocene of Hambach (Germany) and implications for the evolution of the family13
Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia12
Bridging the extant and fossil record of planktonic foraminifera: implications for the Globigerina lineage11
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Sr‐O‐C isotope signatures reveal herbivore niche‐partitioning in a Cretaceous ecosystem11
Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage11
Crypsis in the pelagic realm: evidence from exceptionally preserved fossil fish larvae from the Eocene Stolleklint Clay of Denmark11
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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Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger10
Discovery of proteinaceous moieties in Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshell9
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Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization8
Palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph Culmofrons plumosa8
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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 transition8
Locomotory and morphological evolution of the earliest Silurian graptolite Demirastrites selected by hydrodynamics8
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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 Euarchontoglires7
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The many ways toward punctuated evolution7
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Computational fluid dynamics confirms drag reduction associated with trilobite queuing behaviour7
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction6
Relative skull size evolution in Mesozoic archosauromorphs: potential drivers and morphological uniqueness of erythrosuchid archosauriforms6
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High‐precision body mass predictors for small mammals: a case study in the Mesozoic6
An Appalachian population of neochoristoderes (Diapsida, Choristodera) elucidated using fossil evidence and ecological niche modelling6
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene6
Paradox lost: wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter‐feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates6
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Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity6
The utility of probability plotting in palaeobiology6
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
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