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Papers

(The median citation count of Paleobiology is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	34
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	23
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	22
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	20
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics	20
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	16
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	16
Relative oversampling of carbonate rocks in the North American marine fossil record	16
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	15
Interpretation of fossil embryos requires reasonable assessment of developmental age	15
Permian–Triassic phylogenetic and morphologic evolution of rhynchonellide brachiopods	14
Is the hyoid a constraint on innovation? A study in convergence driving feeding in fish-shaped marine tetrapods	14
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	13
Geographic and temporal morphological stasis in the latest Cretaceous ammonoidDiscoscaphites irisfrom the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains	13
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	12
Developmental change during a speciation event: evidence from planktic foraminifera	12
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	11
Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity during the end-Permian mass extinction – ADDENDUM	10
Linking host plants to damage types in the fossil record of insect herbivory – CORRIGENDUM	10
Spatial standardization of taxon occurrence data—a call to action	10
The Phanerozoic aftermath of the Cambrian information revolution: sensory and cognitive complexity in marine faunas	9
Why the long teeth? Morphometric analysis suggests different selective pressures on functional occlusal traits in Plio-Pleistocene African suids	9
Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display	9
The paleobiologic implications of modern nonmarine ecological gradients	9
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time	8

PAB volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	8
The impact of apicobasal ridges on dental load-bearing capacity in aquatic-feeding predatory amniotes	7
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	7
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	7
Different mammals, same structure: co-occurrence structure across the Plio-Pleistocene transition	7
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology	7
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
Did shell-crushing predators drive the evolution of ammonoid septal shape?	6
Repairing the scaffolding: women authors in Paleobiology	6
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	6
The Fractional MacroEvolution Model: a simple quantitative scaling macroevolution model	6
The structure of the nonmarine fossil record: predictions from a coupled stratigraphic–paleoecological model of a coastal basin	6
A quantitative assessment of ontogeny and molting in a Cambrian radiodont and the evolution of arthropod development	5
Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change	5
A test of Bergmann's rule in the Early Triassic: latitude, body size, and sampling in Lystrosaurus	5
On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record	5
The Fezouata Shale Formation biota is typical for the high latitudes of the Early Ordovician—a quantitative approach	5
A biased fossil record can preserve reliable phylogenetic signal	5
Ultrastructural evidence shows adaptation to a pelagic lifestyle in Ordovician caryocaridids (Crustacea: phyllocarida)	4
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	4
Levels of selection and macroevolution in organisms, colonies, and species	4
The egg-thief architect: experimental oviraptorosaur nesting physiology, the possibility of adult-mediated incubation, and the feasibility of indirect contact incubation	4
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks—Corrigendum	4
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	4
Sediment-encased pressure–temperature maturation experiments elucidate the impact of diagenesis on melanin-based fossil color and its paleobiological implications	4
Stratigraphic paleobiology	4
The life and times of Pteridinium simplex	4
Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios support trophic partitioning within a Silurian conodont community from Gotland, Sweden	4
Exceptional multifunctionality in the feeding apparatus of a mid-Cambrian radiodont	4
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	4
Species occurrences of Mio-Pliocene horses (Equidae) from Florida: sampling, ecology, or both?	3
Fossilized pollen malformations as indicators of past environmental stress and meiotic disruption: insights from modern conifers	3
Ontogenetic mechanisms of size change: implications for the Lilliput effect and beyond	3
Examining competition during the agnathan/gnathostome transition using distance-based morphometrics	3
Carbonate shelf development and early Paleozoic benthic diversity in Baltica: a hierarchical diversity partitioning approach using brachiopod data	3
Ediacara growing pains: modular addition and development in Dickinsonia costata	3
Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians	2
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	2
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	2
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	2
Where it's worth it: frequency and spatial distribution of bioerosional drill holes in planktonic foraminifera reveal different strategies in site selectivity	2
Early eukaryote diversity: a review and a reinterpretation	2
Scale dependence of drilling predation in the Holocene of the northern Adriatic Sea across benthic habitats and nutrient regimes	2
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	2
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	2
Biotic interactions and their consequences for macroevolution: learning from the fossil record and beyond	2
Turtle species extinction across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary	2
Frond orientations with independent current indicators demonstrate the reclining rheotropic mode of life of several Ediacaran rangeomorph taxa	2
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	2

Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	2
Linking host plants to damage types in the fossil record of insect herbivory	2
Terrestrialization: toward a shared framework for ecosystem evolution	2
Plant taxonomic turnover and diversity across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in northeastern Montana	2
Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology	2
PAB volume 50 issue 2 Cover	1
Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology	1
Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks	1
An abundance- and morphology-based similarity index	1
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	1
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	1
PAB volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	1
Bioturbation increases time averaging despite promoting shell disintegration: a test using anthropogenic gradients in sediment accumulation and burrowing on the southern California shelf	1
Environmental correlates of molluscan predator–prey body size in the northern Gulf of Mexico	1
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	1
Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	1
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	1
Sorting of persistent morphological polymorphisms links paleobiological pattern to population process	1
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	1
Dispersals from the West Tethys as the source of the Indo-West Pacific diversity hotspot in comatulid crinoids	1
PAB volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
PAB volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Convergent evolution of spherical shells in Miocene planktonic foraminifera documents the parallel emergence of a complex character in response to environmental forcing	1
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	1