OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
African Land Mammal Ages	29
Morphology and taxonomy ofQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)	21
Hitchcock’s Leptodactyli, Penetrative Tracks, and Dinosaur Footprint DiversityCitation for this article: Gatesy, S. M., and P. L. Falkingham. 2020. Hitchcock’s Leptodactyli, penetrative tracks, and di	21
The Appendicular Osteology ofPatagotitan Mayorum(Dinosauria, Sauropoda)	18
The Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur ‘Morosaurus’ agilisMarsh, 1889 reexamined and reinterpreted as a dicraeosaurid	17
Osteology of the Wide-Hipped Titanosaurian Sauropod Dinosaur Savannasaurus Elliottorum from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, AustraliaCitation for th	17
Panzhousaurus rotundirostris Jiang et al., 2019 (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) and the recovery of the monophyly of Pachypleurosauridae	17
Phylogenetic systematics ofQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea:Azhdarchoidea)	14
The braincase and inner ear of ‘Metriorhynchus’ cf. ‘M.’ brachyrhynchus – implications for aquatic sensory adaptations in crocodylomorphs	13
A New Prozostrodontian Cynodont (Eucynodontia, Probainognathia) from the Upper Triassic of Southern BrazilCitation for this article: Stefanello, M., L. Kerber, A. G. Martinelli, and S. Dias-Da-Silva.	13
The Westernmost Asian Record of Pythonids (Serpentes): The Presence of Python in a Miocene Hominoid Locality of AnatoliaCitation for this article: Georgalis, G. L., S. M	12
New Fossils ofMellivora Benfieldi(Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg, ‘E’ Quarry (South Africa, Early Pliocene): Re-Evaluation of the African Neogene Mellivorines	12
Skeletal Anatomy ofAcaenasuchus GeoffreyiLong and Murry, 1995 (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its Implications for the Origin of the Aetosaurian Carapace	12
A redescription of Kunpania scopulusa, a bidentalian dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the ?Guadalupian of northwestern China	12
Using Manual Ungual Morphology to Predict Substrate Use in the Drepanosauromorpha and the Description of a New Species	11
A Basal Nonmammaliaform Cynodont from the Permian of Zambia and the Origins of Mammalian Endocranial and Postcranial Anatomy	11
Late Pleistocene Mammals from Kibogo, Kenya: Systematic Paleontology, Paleoenvironments, and Non-Analog Associations	11
Anatomy of a New Specimen of Piscivorenantiornis Inusitatus (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol BiotaCitation for this article: Wang, M., and Z. Zhou.	11
A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid from La Invernada (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian, Bajo De La Carpa Formation), Northern Patagonia, Argentina	11
Cyonasua(Carnivora, Procyonidae) from Late Miocene of Peru Shed Light on the Early Dispersal of Carnivorans in South America	10
A New Ladinian Nothosauroid (Sauropterygia) from Fuyuan, Yunnan Province, ChinaCitation for this article: Shang, Q.-H., X.-C. Wu, and C. Li. 2020. A new Ladinian nothosauroid (Sauropterygia) from Fuyu	10
An Enigmatic Neodiapsid Reptile from the Middle Triassic of EnglandCitation for this article: Cavicchini, I., M. Zaher, and M. J. Benton. 2020. An enigmatic neodiapsid reptile from the Middle Triassic	9
Phylogenetic placement of Adalatherium hui (Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar: implications for allotherian relationships	9
Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod dinosaurHudiesaurus sinojapanorumDong, 1997, from the Turpan Basin, China, and the evolution of hyper-robust antebrachia in sauropods	9
From toad to frog, a CT-based reconsideration ofBufo servatus, an Eocene anuran mummy from Quercy (France)	9

Systematics and paleobiology of a new articulated axial specimen referred to Iguanodon cf. galvensis (Ornithopoda, Iguanodontoidea)	9
A new species of crested pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) of Richmond, North West Queensland, Australia	8
Radiation and Divergence Times of BatoideaCitation for this article: Villalobos-Segura, E., and C. J. Underwood. 2020. Radiation and divergence times of Batoidea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. D	8
Nomenclature, comparative anatomy, and evolution of the reflected lamina of the angular in non-mammalian synapsids	8
A European Cenozoic ‘Macrobaenid:’ New Data about the Paleocene Arrival of Several Turtle Lineages to Europe	8
To be or not to be: The Hidden Side ofCargninia Enigmaticaand Other Puzzling Remains of Lepidosauromorpha from the Upper Triassic of Brazil	8
Functional morphology ofQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)	8
A new beardfish (Teleostei, Polymixiiformes) from the Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark	8
Insights on the Dental Evolution of Walruses Based on New Fossil Specimens from California	8
NewLeptolophus(Palaeotheriidae) species from the Iberian Peninsula and early evidence of hypsodonty in an Eocene perissodactyl	8
The osteology of Ferrodraco lentoni, an anhanguerid pterosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia	8
First record of a giant bird (Ornithuromorpha) from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Southern Pyrenees, northeast Spain	7
Brazilian Permian dvinosaurs (Amphibia, Temnospondyli): revised description and phylogeny	7
Miocene Freshwater Dolphins from La Venta, Huila, Colombia Suggest Independent Invasions of Riverine Environments in Tropical South America	7
A new early diverging thalattosuchian (Crocodylomorpha) from the Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Dorset, U.K. and implications for the origin and evolution of the group	7
A giant Oligocene fossil penguin from the North Island of New Zealand	7
Osteology and Taxonomy of British Wealden Supergroup (Berriasian–aptian) Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria)	7
Cranial Anatomy and Dentition of the Aetosaur Typothorax Coccinarum (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic (Revueltian–Mid Norian) Chinle Formation of Arizona	7
New Specimens ofScutellosaurus LawleriColbert, 1981, from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in Arizona Elucidate the Early Evolution of Thyreophoran Dinosaurs	7
Youngest Interatheriinae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from lower Pliocene Tunuyán Formation (Mendoza, Argentina)	7
Triassic nursery? Evidence of gregarious behavior in juvenile pseudosuchian archosaurs as inferred by humeral histology of Aetosaurus ferratus (Norian; southern Germany)	7
Taxonomic overview of Neogene crocodylians in Myanmar	6
New early late Miocene species of Vishnuonyx (Carnivora, Lutrinae) from the hominid locality of Hammerschmiede, Bavaria, Germany	6
A new plastomenid trionychid turtle, Plastomenus joycei , sp. nov., from the earliest Paleocene (Danian) Denver Formation of south-central Colorado, U.S.A.	6
First Osteological Record of a Stegosaur (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic of South America	6
A New Lungfish from the Jurassic of Thailand	6
The first braincase of the basal aetosaur Aetosauroides scagliai (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic of Brazil	6
A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny	6
A new hypothesis of eudromaeosaurian evolution: CT scans assist in testing and constructing morphological characters	6
An Upper Triassic terrestrial vertebrate assemblage from the forgotten Kocury locality (Poland) with a new aetosaur taxon	6
New stegosaurs from the Middle Jurassic Lower Member of the Shaximiao Formation of Chongqing, China	6
Two exceptionally preserved juvenile specimens of Gorgosaurus libratus (Tyrannosauridae, Albertosaurinae) provide new insight into the timing of ontogenetic changes in tyrannosaurids	6
A new baenid turtle, Palatobaena knellerorum sp. nov., from the lower Paleocene (Danian) Denver Formation of south-central Colorado, U.S.A.	6
Osteohistology and paleobiological inferences of proterochampsids (Eucrocopoda: Proterochampsia) from the Chañares Formation (late Ladinian–early Carnian), La Rioja, Argentina	6
A revision of skull morphology in Phorusrhacidae (Aves, Cariamiformes)	6
First definitive abelisaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Northwestern Argentina	6
Oldest Record of African Bagridae and Evidence from Catfishes for a Marine Influence in the Late Eocene Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), Fayum Depression, EgyptCitation for this article: El-Sayed, S.,	5
A new ornithuromorph bird from the Lower Cretaceous of South America	5
The fossil record of the ocelot Leopardus pardalis (Carnivora, Felidae): a new record from the southern range of its distribution and its paleoenvironmental context	5
A newTriodusshark species (Xenacanthidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lowermost Permian of France and its paleobiogeographic implications	5
The earliest recorded fossil pelican, recovered from the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt	5
Fossil evidence for earlier radiation in istiophorid billfishes (Teleostei, Istiophoriformes) uncovered by comparative morphology of the caudal vertebrae	5
A new large gomphodont from the Triassic of South Africa and its implications for Gondwanan biostratigraphy	5
Catutosaurus gaspariniae , gen. et sp. nov. (Ichthyosauria, Thunnosauria) of the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and the evolution of the ophthalmosaurids	5
First record of the amphibamiform Micropholis stowi from the lower Fremouw Formation (Lower Triassic) of Antarctica	5
How many sabertooths? Reevaluating the number of carnivoran sabretooth lineages with total-evidence Bayesian techniques and a novel origin of the Miocene Nimravidae	5
New late Oligocene caviomorph rodents from Mendoza Province, central-western Argentina	5
A fossil sea turtle (Reptilia, Pan-Cheloniidae) with preserved soft tissues from the Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark	5
Habitat of the giant pterosaurQuetzalcoatlusLawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea): a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Javelina Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Big Bend National Pa	5
Geologically Oldest Pediomyoidea (Mammalia, Marsupialiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of North America, with Implications for Taxonomy and Diet of Earliest Late Cretaceous Mammals	5

A new sebecid mesoeucrocodylian from the Paleocene of northwestern Argentina	5
A Partially Complete Skeleton of Hippidion Saldiasi Roth, 1899 (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from the Late Pleistocene of the High Andes in Northern Chile	5
The discovery, local distribution, and curation of the giant azhdarchid pterosaurs from Big Bend National Park	5
Osteology and digital reconstruction of the skull of the early tetrapod Whatcheeria deltae	5
Postcranial osteology of the basally branching hadrosauroid dinosaur Tanius sinensis from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China	5
Phylogenetic relationships of the European trilophosaurids Tricuspisaurus thomasi and Variodens inopinatus	5
Modeling scale morphogenesis in a Devonian chondrichthyan and scale growth patterns in crown gnathostomes	5
A new ektopodontid possum (Diprotodontia, Ektopodontidae) from the Oligocene of central Australia, and its implications for phalangeroid interrelationships	5
Archosauriform remains from the Lower Triassic Sanga do Cabral Formation of Brazil	5
First Pleistocene South American Teratornithidae (Aves): new insights into the late evolutionary history of teratorns	5
The Dawn of Desmatophocidae: A New Species of Basal Desmatophocid Seal (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Miocene of Oregon, U.S.A.	5
The youngest pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota) from Europe	4
A new old Budgett frog: an articulated skeleton of an Early Pliocene Lepidobatrachus (Anura, Ceratophryidae) from western Argentina	4
Diverse assemblage of Middle Triassic continental tetrapods from the Newark Supergroup of Nova Scotia (Canada)	4
Aragonictis araid, gen. et sp. nov., a small-sized hypercarnivore (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the upper middle Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain)	4
A Comprehensive Review of the Morphological Diversity of the Quadrate Bone in Mosasauroids (Squamata: Mosasauroidea), with Comments on the Homology of the Infrastapedial Process	4
Tooth replacement in the non-mammalian cynodont Cynosaurus suppostus (Therapsida) from the late Permian of South Africa	4
The cranial anatomy of the long-snouted tyrannosaurid dinosaur Qianzhousaurus sinensis from the Upper Cretaceous of China	4
Lower jaw morphology ofAdalatherium hui(Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar	4
New species of Yuomys (Rodentia, Ctenodactyloidea) from the upper Eocene of eastern Ningxia, China	4
The oldest occurrence of Crocodylus in Madagascar and the Holocene crocodylian turnover	4
Craniofacial morphology ofAdalatherium hui(Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar	4
Paleobiology of Jefferson’s Ground Sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) derived from three contemporaneous, ontogenetically distinct individuals recovered from Southwestern Iowa, U.S.A.	4
Generalist diet of Microraptor zhaoianus included mammals	4
Ornithopod jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia, and their implications for polar neornithischian dinosaur diversity	4
A new lizard-like reptile from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of Virginia and the Triassic record of Lepidosauromorpha (Diapsida, Sauria)	4
A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, EgyptCitation for this article: Gorscak, E., Lamanna, M. C., Schwarz, D., Díez D	4
The extinct shark, Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) in the Upper Cretaceous of central-western Russia—The road to easternmost peri-Tethyan seas	4
The osteology of Shringasaurus indicus, an archosauromorph from the Middle Triassic Denwa Formation, Satpura Gondwana Basin, Central India	4
A new cranial reconstruction ofCoelurosauravus elivensisPiveteau, 1926 (Diapsida, Weigeltisauridae) and its implications on the paleoecology of the first gliding vertebrates	4
Anatomy and phylogeny of an exceptionally large sebecid (Crocodylomorpha) from the middle Eocene of southern France	4
Oligocene basking sharks (Lamniformes, Cetorhinidae) of the Carpathian Basin with a reconsideration of the role of gill rakers in species diagnostics	4