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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover	30
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover	28
Taking the temperature of punctuated equilibrium on its semicentennial	22
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference	22
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica	21
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation	20
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks	16
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model	15
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian	15
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States	15
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology	14
Addressing the “open world”: detecting and segmenting pollen on palynological slides with deep learning	14
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover	13
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges	12
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
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM	12
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales	11
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?	11
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic	11
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2	11
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura	10
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	10
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces	10
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora	9

Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?	9
Growth allometry and dental topography in Upper Triassic conodonts support trophic differentiation and molar-like element function	9
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia	9
Drilling predation on Early Jurassic bivalves and behavioral patterns of the presumed gastropod predator—evidence from Pliensbachian soft-bottom deposits of northern Germany	8
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)	8
Paleodiet of Lamini camelids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil: insights from stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O)	8
Reflections on punctuated equilibria	8
Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms	8
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans	7
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM	7
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation	7
Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees is not misled by correlated discrete morphological characters	7
Larval brooding correlated with high early origination rates in cheilostome Bryozoa	7
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference	6
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic	6
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models	6
PAB volume 51 issue 3 Cover	6
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution	6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids	6
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things	6
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia	6
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe	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
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record	5
Trait networks reveal turnover in Caribbean corals and changes in community resilience through the Cenozoic	5
PAB volume 50 issue 2 Cover	5
Relative species abundance and population densities of the past: developing multispecies occupancy models for fossil data	4
Mass extinctions and their rebounds: a macroevolutionary framework	4
Death on “live broadcast”—fish mortichnia from the Upper Cretaceous plattenkalk of Lebanon	4
Evolvability in the fossil record	4
PAB volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Selecting and averaging relaxed clock models in Bayesian tip dating of Mesozoic birds	4
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project	4
Evidence for increased animal pollination during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum	4
Growth of the enigmatic Ediacaran Parvancorina minchami	4
Size-driven preservational and macroecological biases in the latest Maastrichtian terrestrial vertebrate assemblages of North America	4
PAB volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
PAB volume 51 issue 1 Cover	3
Reevaluating climate change responses in Rancho La Brea birds and mammals: new dates and new data	3
Using state space models to understand trait evolution in fossil lineages	3
Parallelism of mandibular function in therian carnivores: a morphometric, phylogenetic, and finite element analysis	3
Ultrastructural evidence shows adaptation to a pelagic lifestyle in Ordovician caryocaridids (Crustacea: phyllocarida)	3
Diversification dynamics of vegetation during the Cenozoic in the Neotropics: a palynological perspective from Colombia	3
Automatic taxonomic identification based on the Fossil Image Dataset (>415,000 images) and deep convolutional neural networks	3
The paleobiologic implications of modern nonmarine ecological gradients	3

Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks—Corrigendum	3
Reassessment of body temperature and thermoregulation strategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles	3
Stratigraphic paleobiology	3
Data equity in paleobiology: progress, challenges, and future outlook	3
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics	3
Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change	3
Stasis and faunal overturn in ancient marine communities: punctuation and evolution on the periphery	2
Latest Maastrichtian middle- and high-latitude mosasaurs and fish isotopic composition: carbon source, thermoregulation strategy, and thermal latitudinal gradient	2
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction	2
Environmental correlates of molluscan predator–prey body size in the northern Gulf of Mexico	2
Bivalve body-size distribution through the Late Triassic mass extinction event	2
Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates	2
Sediment-encased pressure–temperature maturation experiments elucidate the impact of diagenesis on melanin-based fossil color and its paleobiological implications	2
Reassessing growth and mortality estimates for the Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus eatoni	2
Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	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
James Valentine (20 November 1926–7 April 2023), co-founder of Paleobiology and master of idiographically informed nomothetism	2
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion	2
Punctuated equilibria from 2008 to 2023: continued validation, expanded analytical approaches, plus some drift on defining stasis	2
PAB volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future	2
Punctuated equilibrium: state of the evidence	2
Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record	2