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Papers

(The median citation count of Paleobiology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	33
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	30
Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial	23
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	18
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	18
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States	15
Exploring rates of change and modes of evolution in blastozoan echinoderms	15
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	15
An implementation of the Brownian motion model for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using continuous traits with missing states	15
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	14
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	14
Addressing the “open world”: detecting and segmenting pollen on palynological slides with deep learning	13
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	12
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	12
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	11
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	11
AI and paleontology: effects of vertebrate fossil sample size on machine learning image classification	11
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	11
Exploring the influence of cameral deposits on the stability, orientation, and maneuverability of orthocone cephalopods	10
“Super-progenitor” species and the distribution of sampled descendants	10
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	10
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	10
Ecological and paleontological implications of trematode-induced morphospace inflation and pallial sinus reduction in bivalve hosts	9
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	9
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	9

Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	8
Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees is not misled by correlated discrete morphological characters	8
Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms	8
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	8
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales	8
Drilling predation on Early Jurassic bivalves and behavioral patterns of the presumed gastropod predator—evidence from Pliensbachian soft-bottom deposits of northern Germany	8
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	8
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	8
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	8
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzi	8
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	7
PAB volume 51 issue 3 Cover	7
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	7
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	7
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	7
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	7
Larval brooding correlated with high early origination rates in cheilostome Bryozoa	7
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM	7
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	7
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	6
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Trait networks reveal turnover in Caribbean corals and changes in community resilience through the Cenozoic	6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	6
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	6
Drivers of fossil sampling heterogeneity: lessons from planktonic foraminifera	6
Distinguishing punctuated and continuous-time models of character evolution for discrete characters and the implications for macroevolutionary theory	6
Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians	5
PAB volume 50 issue 2 Cover	5
PAB volume 52 issue 1 Cover	5
Ontogenetic mechanisms of size change: implications for the Lilliput effect and beyond	5
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	5
Evidence for increased animal pollination during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	5
Early eukaryote diversity: a review and a reinterpretation	5
Terrestrialization: toward a shared framework for ecosystem evolution	5
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project	5
PAB volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Mass extinctions and their rebounds: a macroevolutionary framework	4
In Memoriam: Richard Karl Bambach (18 May 1934–20 June 2025)	4
The paleobiologic implications of modern nonmarine ecological gradients	4
Parallelism of mandibular function in therian carnivores: a morphometric, phylogenetic, and finite element analysis	4
Growth of the enigmatic Ediacaran Parvancorina minchami	4
Death on “live broadcast”—fish mortichnia from the Upper Cretaceous plattenkalk of Lebanon	4
Punctuated equilibria in the 1970s: Stephen Jay Gould between biological improvement and irreducible hierarchy	4
Using state space models to understand trait evolution in fossil lineages	4
Ultrastructural evidence shows adaptation to a pelagic lifestyle in Ordovician caryocaridids (Crustacea: phyllocarida)	4
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics	4
Reassessment of body temperature and thermoregulation strategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles	3
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	3
Stratigraphic paleobiology	3

Morphological trends across the Norian/Rhaetian boundary within Late Triassic conodonts in western Canada: implications for protracted paleoenvironmental disturbance preceding the end-Triassic mass ex	3
Punctuated equilibrium: state of the evidence	3
Diversification dynamics of vegetation during the Cenozoic in the Neotropics: a palynological perspective from Colombia	3
PAB volume 51 issue 4 Cover	3
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	3
PAB volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	3
Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change	3
PAB volume 51 issue 1 Cover	3
Reevaluating climate change responses in Rancho La Brea birds and mammals: new dates and new data	3
Sediment-encased pressure–temperature maturation experiments elucidate the impact of diagenesis on melanin-based fossil color and its paleobiological implications	3
Data equity in paleobiology: progress, challenges, and future outlook	3
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	3
Environmental correlates of molluscan predator–prey body size in the northern Gulf of Mexico	3
Another worm bites the dust: the Lilliput Effect in scolecodonts from the Late Devonian Biodiversity Crisis	2
Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis	2
Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates	2
Stasis and faunal overturn in ancient marine communities: punctuation and evolution on the periphery	2
Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction	2
Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record	2
James Valentine (20 November 1926–7 April 2023), co-founder of Paleobiology and master of idiographically informed nomothetism	2
Evolution of chondrichthyan jaw morphology, from ecological generalists to specialists	2
Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future	2
Reassessing growth and mortality estimates for the Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus eatoni	2
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction	2
Miocene to present turnover of molluscan assemblages: insights into coastal-marine ecosystem evolution along the Peruvian Margin	2