Paleobiology

Papers
(The TQCC of Paleobiology is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
PAB volume 49 issue 4 Cover28
PAB volume 50 issue 1 Cover27
Understanding the appearance of heterospory and derived plant reproductive strategies in the Devonian21
The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks18
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference18
Ankylosaurian body armor function and evolution with insights from osteohistology and morphometrics of new specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica17
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation17
Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model16
Addressing the “open world”: detecting and segmenting pollen on palynological slides with deep learning15
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States15
Punctuated equilibria and a general theory of biology15
PAB volume 49 issue 3 Cover14
History of Native American land and natural resource policy in the United States: impacts on the field of paleontology13
Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time13
All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction – CORRIGENDUM13
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges12
Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura11
A new approach for investigating spatial relationships of ichnofossils: a case study of Ediacaran–Cambrian animal traces11
Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic11
Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE211
Global Phanerozoic biodiversity—can variation be explained by spatial sampling intensity?10
Influence of phylogeny on the estimation of diet from dental morphology in the Carnivora9
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia9
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 function9
The evolution of hearing and brain size in Eocene whales9
Reflections on punctuated equilibria9
PAB volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter9
The chondrichthyan fossil record of the Florida Platform (Eocene–Pleistocene)8
The taphonomic clock in fish otoliths8
Geometric morphometrics as a tool for evaluating Eublastoidea morphological variation8
Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms8
Paleodiet of Lamini camelids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil: insights from stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ18O)8
A new biomechanical approach to cranial suture function: the role of contact elements in linear and nonlinear models8
Drilling predation on Early Jurassic bivalves and behavioral patterns of the presumed gastropod predator—evidence from Pliensbachian soft-bottom deposits of northern Germany8
Larval brooding correlated with high early origination rates in cheilostome Bryozoa7
Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans7
The extended common cause: causal links between punctuated evolution and sedimentary processes – ERRATUM7
Latitudinal influences on bryozoan calcification through the Paleozoic6
Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference6
Hydrodynamic trade-offs in potential swimming efficiency of planispiral ammonoids6
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things6
Applying the Prigogine view of dissipative systems to the major transitions in evolution6
Biotic and abiotic factors and the phylogenetic structure of extinction in the evolution of Tethysuchia6
The sponge pump as a morphological character in the fossil record5
Ontogenetic mechanisms of size change: implications for the Lilliput effect and beyond5
Terrestrialization: toward a shared framework for ecosystem evolution5
Diversification trajectories and paleobiogeography of Neogene chondrichthyans from Europe5
Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians5
PAB volume 50 issue 2 Cover5
PAB volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter5
PAB volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter5
Early eukaryote diversity: a review and a reinterpretation5
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