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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	29
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	25
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	22
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	22
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	17
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	17
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States	15
An implementation of the Brownian motion model for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using continuous traits with missing states	14
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	14
Addressing the “open world”: detecting and segmenting pollen on palynological slides with deep learning	14
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	14
Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial	14
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	12
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	12
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	12
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	12
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	12
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	11
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	11
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	11
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales	10
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	10
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	9
Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	9

Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	9
Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms	8
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	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
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	8
Paleodiet of Lamini camelids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil: insights from stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O)	8
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	8
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
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	7
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	7
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	7
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	7
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	6
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM	6
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	6
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
Larval brooding correlated with high early origination rates in cheilostome Bryozoa	6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	6
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	6
PAB volume 51 issue 3 Cover	6
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	6
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	6
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	5
Trait networks reveal turnover in Caribbean corals and changes in community resilience through the Cenozoic	5
PAB volume 50 issue 2 Cover	5
Distinguishing punctuated and continuous-time models of character evolution for discrete characters and the implications for macroevolutionary theory	5
Ontogenetic mechanisms of size change: implications for the Lilliput effect and beyond	5
Early eukaryote diversity: a review and a reinterpretation	5
Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians	5
Terrestrialization: toward a shared framework for ecosystem evolution	5
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	4
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project	4
The paleobiologic implications of modern nonmarine ecological gradients	4
Mass extinctions and their rebounds: a macroevolutionary framework	4
Evidence for increased animal pollination during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	4
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics	4
Parallelism of mandibular function in therian carnivores: a morphometric, phylogenetic, and finite element analysis	4
PAB volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Growth of the enigmatic Ediacaran Parvancorina minchami	4
Death on “live broadcast”—fish mortichnia from the Upper Cretaceous plattenkalk of Lebanon	4
Using state space models to understand trait evolution in fossil lineages	4
Diversification dynamics of vegetation during the Cenozoic in the Neotropics: a palynological perspective from Colombia	3
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks—Corrigendum	3
PAB volume 51 issue 1 Cover	3
Data equity in paleobiology: progress, challenges, and future outlook	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
Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change	3

Reassessment of body temperature and thermoregulation strategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles	3
Sediment-encased pressure–temperature maturation experiments elucidate the impact of diagenesis on melanin-based fossil color and its paleobiological implications	3
Reevaluating climate change responses in Rancho La Brea birds and mammals: new dates and new data	3
Environmental correlates of molluscan predator–prey body size in the northern Gulf of Mexico	3
Punctuated equilibria in the 1970s: Stephen Jay Gould between biological improvement and irreducible hierarchy	3
Ultrastructural evidence shows adaptation to a pelagic lifestyle in Ordovician caryocaridids (Crustacea: phyllocarida)	3
Stratigraphic paleobiology	3
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	3
PAB volume 51 issue 4 Cover	3
Reassessing growth and mortality estimates for the Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus eatoni	2
Global factors constrain body-size trends across the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event at a regional scale: a case study from the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma	2
Punctuated equilibrium: state of the evidence	2
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	2
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction	2
Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis	2
Which morphological traits can be used to reconstruct genome size in fossil plants? Assessing sporomorph size and stomatal guard cell length as paleo-genome size proxies	2
Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record	2
Anomalous ¹³C enrichment in Mesozoic vertebrate enamel reflects environmental conditions in a “vanished world” and not a unique dietary physiology	2
Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future	2
Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	2
Morphometric analysis of the Late CretaceousPlacenticerasof Alabama, USA: sexual dimorphism, allometry, and implications for taxonomy	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
James Valentine (20 November 1926–7 April 2023), co-founder of Paleobiology and master of idiographically informed nomothetism	2
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	2
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	2
Evolution of chondrichthyan jaw morphology, from ecological generalists to specialists	2
Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates	2