OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Paleontological Journal 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Khasurty Fossil Insect Lagerstätte	30
New Finds of the Fossil Ant Genus Prionomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmeciinae) in Late Eocene European Amber	13
Asselian-Sakmarian Nautiloids of the Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	10
Lophophore Evolution from the Cambrian to the Present	9
Periplaneta (?) perialla sp. nov., a Cockroach Larva of the Subfamily Blattinae (Dictyoptera, Blattidae) from Rovno Amber	9
A Revision of the Palaeocene–Eocene Mongolian Presbyornithidae (Aves: Anseriformes)	9
Ammonites and Stratigraphy of the Upper Bajocian Strenoceras niortense Zone in the Interfluve between the Kuban and Urup Rivers (Northern Caucasus)	8
Distribution and Differentiation of Fossil Oecophylla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species by Wing Imprints	7
Evolutionary Transformations of the Metazoan Body Plan: Genomic-Morphogenetic Correlations	7
On New Records of Cephalopod Jaws from the Upper Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus (Russia, Karachay-Cherkessia)	7
Fossil Organisms of the Kotlin Regional Stage of the Upper Vendian of the Northwestern Russian Platform (Leningrad Region)	7
Neogene Regional Scale of the Eastern Paratethys, Stratigraphy and Paleontological Basis	7
The First Fossil Tody (Aves: Todidae) from Cuba	7
New Data on the Bajocian–Bathonian Parkinsoniidae (Ammonoidea, Perisphinctoidea)	6
Transformation of the Ancestral Body Plan and Axial Growth in Echinoderms: Ontogenetic and Paleontological Data	6
On the Earliest Leptosphinctes (Ammonoidea: Perisphinctidae) from the Upper Bajocian Niortense Zone (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus	6
A Paleosol on a Pre-Cambrian Ferruginous Quartzite Weathering Crust (Stary Oskol, Belgorod Region, Russia)	6
New Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) in the Permian of the Pechora Basin (Komi Republic, Russia) in the Context of Landscape and Vegetation Evolution	6
On the Dimorph Pair Strenoceras acre/Orthogarantiana humilis (Ammonoidea: Stephanoceratidae) from the Upper Bajocian of the Northern Caucasus	6
New Taxa of Soft-Winged Flower Beetles (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) in Baltic Amber	6
Fagaceae in the Eocene Palynoflora of the South of Primorskii Region: New Data on Taxonomy and Morphology	6
Trilobozoa, Precambrian Tri-Radial Organisms	6
A New Benthosuchid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Triassic of the Moscow Syncline	6
Infrazonal Ammonite Biostratigraphy, Paleobiogeography and Evolution of Volgian Craspeditid Ammonites	6
A New Species of Spinaeblattina Hinkelman, 2019 (Insecta, Blattaria, Mesoblattinidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Paektho-Dong, Sinuiju, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	5

Mesozoic Gall Midges (Diptera, Cecidomyioidea) with a Description of a New Genus and Species from the Santonian Amber of Taimyr (Ugolyak)	5
Late Artinskian Nautiloids of the Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	5
A New Radiolarian Family Provisocyntridae fam. nov. from the Late Paleozoic	5
The Role of Microbial Communities in Soil Formation and Soil Ecosystem Health	5
Fossil Organisms of the Redkino Regional Stage of the Upper Vendian of the Northwestern Russian Platform (Leningrad Region)	5
New Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata) from the Permian of European Russia	5
Genus Bittium Gray, 1847 (Cerithiidae, Gastropoda) in the Tarkhanian–Chokrakian (Miocene) Deposits of the Eastern Paratethys	5
Recent Studies of Co-Evolutionary Relationships of Fossil Plants and Fungi: Success, Problems, Prospects	5
Asselian and Sakmarian (Lower Permian) Radiolarian Ecozones of the South Urals (Russia)	5
Paekthoblatta, a New Predatory Cockroach Genus (Insecta: Blattaria: Raphidiomimidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Paektho-Dong, Sinuiju, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	5
New Bird Taxa (Aves: Galliformes, Gruiformes) from the Early Eocene of Mongolia	5
Rare and Endemic Elements in Triassic Tetrapod Assemblages of Obshchii Syrt Highland (Eastern Europe)	5
Comparison of the Crystallographic Texture of the Recent, Fossil and Subfossil Shells of Bivalves	4
New Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata: Protozygoptera) from the Upper Permian of the Vologda Region	4
Reproductive Strategies and Patterns in Marine Invertebrates: Diversity and Evolution	4
Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera: Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?	4
The First Damselflies of the Family Kennedyidae (Odonata: Protozygoptera) from the Permian–Triassic Boundary Deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin, Russia	4
The First Record of Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera: Mesochrysopidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of South Korea	4
The Plantigrade Segnosaurians: Sloth Dinosaurs or Bear Dinosaurs?	4
Multituberculata from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia	4
On the First Record of Infragarantiana (Ammonoidea: Perisphinctidae) from the Upper Bajocian Niortense Zone (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus, Russia	4
Asselian-Sakmarian Ammonoids of the Early Permian Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)	4
From Prokaryota to Eumetazoa: Symbiotic Associations in Fossil and Recent Bryozoans	4
New and Little Known Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of Russia	4
New Tribe Palaeoanoplini trib. nov. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Baltic Amber	4
Small Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from the Early–Middle Miocene of Eurasia. 1. A revision of Anas velox Milne-Edwards, 1868 and Anas soporata Kurochkin, 1976	4
The Genus Cadomites (Ammonoidea: Stephanoceratidae) from the Upper Bajocian–Lower Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of the Kuban River Basin (Northern Caucasus, Russia)	4
Striatolamia tchelkarnurensis Glickman (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes), the Youngest Valid Striatolamia Species	4
Cave Bears (Ursus Spelaeus sensu lato) of the Urals	4
Riabininohadros, a New Genus for the Ornithischian Dinosaur Orthomerus weberae (Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia) from the Late Cretaceous of Crimea	4
A New Pseudosuchian from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe	4
First Finding of a Pterosaur in the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Urals	4
On the Earliest Parkinsonia (Ammonoidea: Parkinsoniidae) from the Upper Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of the Northern Caucasus, Russia	4
First Record of the Genus Cyrtanaspis Emery (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scraptiidae) from Baltic Amber	4
Coelom Metamerism in Echinodermata	4
Symmetry of Vendobionta (Late Precambrian Metazoa)	3
Solutans (Echinoderms): Evolution Frozen between Torsion and Pentaradiality	3
Climate Dynamics and the History of Soil Formation in the Steppe Zone of Eastern Europe in the Holocene	3
Review of the Jurassic Weevils of the Genus Belonotaris Arnoldi (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae) with a Straight Rostrum	3
First Record of the Genus Unionites Wissmann (Bivalvia) in the Boreal Permian of Northeast Russia	3
A New Conodont Species Scythogondolella dolosa sp. nov. from the Anasibirites nevolini Zone (Lower Triassic) of Southern Primorye	3
Lignin of Ancient Plant Fossils	3
First Report of Insect Endophytic Oviposition from the Upper Permian of the Pechora Basin, on a Leaf of Phylladoderma (Peltaspermopsida: Cardiolepidaceae)	3
The First Finding of Basilosauridae (Mammalia: Cetacea) in the Upper Eocene of the Baltic States (Russia, Kaliningrad Region)	3
Unbranched Holdfasts of Stemmed Echinoderms from the Ordovician of the Leningrad Region	3
New Early Permian Species of Radiolaria of the South Urals and Western Mugodzhary	3
Revision of Permian Ray-Finned Fishes from the Kazankovo-Markino Formation of the Kuznetsk Basin	3
A New Species of the Genus Protaneuretus Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Bitterfeld Amber (Late Eocene), with a Key to the Species of the Genus	3
A New Genus of the Tribe Cossonini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Baltic Amber (Poland)	3
The Permian Ammonoid Family Medlicottiidae in the Verkhoyansk Region	3

Fossil Stone Shelduck (Tadorna petrina) and Shoveler (Spatula praeclypeata sp. nov.)—the Oldest Early Pleistocene Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from Crimea	3
On the First Finding of Soergelia minor (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) in the Lower Pleistocene of Taurida Cave in the Crimea and the History of the Genus Soergelia	3
Reply to: “Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites” and “Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transpor	3
New Find of Inoceramus-Like Bivalves of the Genus Atomodesma in the Southern Verkhoyansk Region, and Invasions of Extra-Boreal Mollusks into Northeastern Asia during the Permian	3
A New Radiolarian Genus Nestelliana gen. nov. and New Species from the Late Devonian of the Polar Urals and the Early Carboniferous of the Volga–Ural Basin of Russia	3
Small Vertebrates from the Pleistocene Sediments of the East Chamber of Denisova Cave, Northwestern Altai Mountains	3
A New Genus and Species of Malachite Beetles (Coleoptera, Dasytidae) in Baltic Amber	3
New Siluro-Devonian Anomalocystitids (Echinodermata, Stylophora) from Bolivia and Canada, and a Reevaluation of Skeletal Homologies in Mitrates	3
On the Zonal Index-Species of the Standard Scale of the Ryazanian Stage on the Russian Platform	3
Revision of the Genera Spinodeflandrella Kozur, 1981, Holdsworthella Kozur, 1981 and Haplodiacanthus Nazarov et Rudenko, 1981 (Early Permian Radiolarians of the Order Albaillellaria) in the South Ural	3
Late Bajocian and Early Bathonian Ostracods of the Russian Plate. Part I: Genera Plumhoffia Brand and Aaleniella Plumhoff	3
Radiolarians, Conodonts, and Palynomorphs from the Sakmarian–Artinskian Boundary Beds (Lower Permian) in the Dal’ny Tulkas Section, South Urals, Russia	3
A New Hybocrinid Genus (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the Middle Ordovician of Ladoga Glint on the Volkhov River	3
New Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of European Russia	3
New Weevils of the Family Brentidae (Coleoptera) in Baltic Amber	3
New Ammonoids from the Devonian–Carboniferous Boundary Beds in Berchogur (Western Kazakhstan)	3
New Caddisflies (Insecta, Trichoptera) of the Families Vitimotauliidae and Philopotamidae from the Khasurty Locality (Lower Cretaceous, Russia) with a Brief Review of the World Fossil Fauna	3
Permian Bivalves of the Pronchishchev Ridge (North Siberia): New Data on Taxonomic Composition, Biostratigraphy, and Biogeographic Relationships	3
Sexual Dimorphism in the Postcranial Skeleton of Dinosaurs	3
Consortia of Conifers and Fungi in the Paleocene of the Amur Region, Russia	2
First Record of Fungus of the Family Mycocaliciaceae in Rovno Amber (Ukraine)	2
The First Record of a Pteranodontid (Pterosauria, Pteranodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the Lower Volga Region	2
Role of Bacteria in the Accumulation of Cambrian–Ordovician Phosphate-Bearing Obolus Beds in the North-West of the Russian Plate	2
New Belemnites of the Family Cylindroteuthididae from the Lower Cretaceous of Northern East Siberia, Nordvik Peninsula	2
On Some Parkinsonia (Ammonoidea: Parkinsoniidae) from the Uppermost Bajocian of the Kuban and Urup Rivers Interfluve (Northern Caucasus, Russia)	2
Sea Lilies in Spring: Crinoid Diversification during the Early Ordovician	2
A New Species of Stromateid Fish (Perciformes, Stromateoidei) of the Genus Pinichthys from the Tarkhanian (Lowermost Middle Miocene) of the Northwestern Caucasus	2
Revision of Permosialidae (Insecta: Palaeomanteida) from the Uppermost Lower and Lower Middle Permian of European Russia	2
Morphology, Paleobiology and Systematics of the Mobergellids, a Group of Cambrian Problematic Fossils	2
A Fossil Bunting Emberiza shaamarica (Aves, Emberizidae) from the Upper Pliocene of Central Asia	2
Morphophysiological Peculiarities of Articulated Brachiopods and Marine Bryozoans as a Reason for Their Different Evolutionary Consequences of the Permian–Triassic Crisis	2
A New Species of the Apionine Genus Baltoconapium Legalov, 2020 (Coleoptera: Brentidae) from Baltic Amber	2
On the Revision of the Permian Ray-Finned Fishes of European Russia. Part 1	2
On the Pseudosuchians Tsylmosuchus donensis and Scythosuchus basileus from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe	2
Aptian–Albian Oysters from the Southwestern Spurs of the Gissar Ridge. Part 1. Genus Amphidonte Fischer de Waldheim	2
On the Late Paleozoic Genus Somoholites Ruzhencev (Somoholitidae, Ammonoidea)	2
A New Lizard (Agamidae, Iguania) from the Late Paleocene of South Mongolia	2
A New Species of the Weevil Genus Anthonomus Germar, 1817 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Dominican Amber	2
Sarmatian Gastropods of the Belaya River Basin (Western Ciscaucasia)	2
Late Bajocian and Early Bathonian Ostracods of the Russian Plate. Part II. Genera: Procytherura Whatley, Pseudohutsonia Wienholz, Acrocythere Neale, Nanacythere Herrig and Trachycythere Triebel et Kli	2
The First Finds of the Most Ancient Oyster-Like Bivalves of the Genus Prospondylus Zimmermann (Pectinidae, Prospondylidae) in the Lower Permian of the Southern Cis-Urals (Russia)	2
Leaves of Ettingshausenia cuneifolia (Bronn) Stiehler (Angiospermae) and Associated Carpels and Stamens from the Turonian of Southern Kazakhstan	2
Paleopathology: Occurrence of Anomalies in the Elements of Devonian Conodonts	2
New Radiolarian Species from the Lower Carboniferous of the Volga–Ural Basin and the Upper Carboniferous of the South Urals of Russia	2
Paleogene Molluscan Communities in the Kopet-Dagh Basin, NE Iran	2
The First Data on the Callovian Ostracodes of Central Dagestan	2
A New Megasecopteran Species of the Genus Aspidothorax Brongniart, 1893 (Insecta: Mischopterida = Megasecoptera: Aspidothoracidae) from the Middle Permian of Perm Region, Russia	2
The Youngest Triassic Land Vertebrate Assemblage of Russia: Composition and Dating	2
A Review of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Mammals of Mongolia	2
A New Radiolarian Genus Alexialeks gen. nov. and New Species from the Early Permian of the South Urals, Russia	2
A New Leptoropha (Kotlassiidae, Seymouriamorpha) Species from the Upper Urzhumian of European Russia	2
A New Species of the Genus Pseudauletes Voss (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) from Baltic Amber	2
Radiolarians of the Kungurian Stage of the Lower Permian in the South Urals of Russia	2
Unique 39 Thousand Cal. BP Brain of the “Yuka” Mammoth Mummified Fossils: A History and Methods of the Examination: Paleoneurological Perspectives	2
Morphology, Individual Age, DNA and Sex of the Yuka Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Northern Yakutia, Russia	2
Revision of Plioperdix (Aves: Phasianidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Ukraine	2
Taxonomic Structure and Endemism of the Bryozoan Fauna of the Arctic Region	2
Morphological Relationships of Ancyrospora Species from the Givetian and Frasnian Deposits of the Pan-Arctic Region	2
Definition, Correlation and Age of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Lower–Middle Triassic of Pangea	2
On the Revision of the Permian Ray-Finned Fishes of European Russia. Part 2	2
Traces of Sublethal Injuries in Upper Cretaceous Echinoid Tests from the Vicinity of Volsk (Lower Volga Region)	2
Evolution of Red Blood Cells in Extant and Extinct Tetrapods	2
Dinosaur Tracks from the Caucasian Mineral Waters Country in the Context of the Study of Lower Cretaceous Paleosols of This Region	2
Pseudocolonies of Silurian Rugoses Microplasma schmidti Dybowski from Estonia: Morphology and Origin	2
The First Finding of a Skin Beetle (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from Sakhalinian Amber	2
Microbially Mediated Organomineralization in Paleozoic Carbonate Ooids	2
The Use of Zygapophyseal Skeletochronology in Individual Age Determination of a Basal Mosasauroid (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Campanian of Saratov Region	2
Culturable Bacterial Communities Isolated from Cryo-Arid Soils: Phylogenetic and Physiological Characteristics	2
Rare Nematoceran Dipterans (Insecta: Diptera) from the Khasurty Locality, Transbaikalia	2
Permian Triaplids (Coleoptera, Triaplidae), Yet Another Group of Mesozoic Beetles from the Terminal Permian	2
Topographic Morphology of the Postcranial Osteoderm Cover of an Adult Scutosaurus tuberculatus (Amalitzky) (Pareiasaurina) from the Late Permian of Eastern Europe	2
A Review on Knowledge and Research of Interstitial Sea Cucumber	2
Early Evolution of Beetles of the Suborder Polyphaga (Insecta: Coleoptera) at the Permian–Triassic Boundary	2
New Genus and Species of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera) from Baltic Amber	2
The Squamation Morphology and Stratigraphic Distribution of Isadia arefievi A. Minich (Actinopterygii, Eurynotoidiformes)	2