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Papers

(The median citation count of Ichnos-An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Metre-scale, upward-radiating burrow systems in Pleistocene aeolian sandstone, Cape South Coast, South Africa: a new ichnotaxon	22
Diving neoichnology: underwater fieldwork focusing on organism and seafloor ecosystem interactions	21
Teredolitesdriftwood from the Arkadelphia Formation–Midway Group Contact (K–Pg), Malvern, Arkansas, USA	21
Report of 18 ^th International Ichnofabric Workshop, 26-31 May 2025 in Granada (Spain)	11
Trace fossils on megafaunal bone remains from Quaternary natural tank deposits of Brazil: A case study in João Cativo Paleontological site, Megafauna Valley, Brazil	10
The role of neoichnology in environmental geoscience	8
Morphology of Radhostium carpaticum Plička and Říha, 1989 in new finds from the Outer Western Carpathians (Upper Cretaceous – Eocene flysch deposits of the Biele Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia)	7
First record of a small stegosaur footprint (cf.Stegopodus) from the ?Upper Jurassic-?Lower Cretaceous red beds of the Middle Atlas, Morocco	7
Ichnology of a tropical delta and associated strandplain: the Oligocene–Miocene Ciénaga de Oro Formation of Colombia	7
Trace fossils of hypersaline environment and its implication in identifying tidal inundation boundary in Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India	7
Ichnofabric analysis of deep-ocean sediment cores from the South Atlantic ocean: Eocene–Oligocene transition (IODP expeditions 390 and 393)	7
The impacts of diagenesis on bioturbated ramp deposits: A study of Arab-D outcrops in Wadi Malham, Central Saudi Arabia	6
New ichnospecies and redescription of Caedichnus Stafford et al., 2015, traces indicative of durophagous predation	6
The paleoichnofauna in bones of Brazilian Quaternary cave deposits and the proposition of two new ichnotaxa	6
Unraveling stratigraphic complexities of transgressive surfaces with trace fossil omission suites and juxtaposed softground suites	6
Sclerobionts on Oscillopha dichotoma (Bayle, 1849) from the Campanian Gurpi Formation, Zagros Basin (SW Iran)	6
Taphonomic overprinting on the late Palaeozoic terrestrial plant–animal interactions: a noise in the record	6
Review of 17th international ichnofabric workshop, 23–25 October 2023 in Faxe (Denmark)	6
First record of Linichnus Jacobsen & Bromley, 2009, and Nihilichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006, in the Itaboraí Basin (early Eocene), in Sou	5
Invertebrate trace fossils from Paleogene fluvial strata in Western Washington, USA	5
A brief overview of deep-sea neoichnology: recent advances and prospects for interpreting the trace fossil record	5
A gar-bitten vertebrate coprolite from the Neogene of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA, and a new ichnospecies of Machichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006	5
Psammichnites from the Pennsylvanian Rod El-Hamal Formation of Egypt: revisiting paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic patterns of distribution of late Paleozoic ichnospeci	5
Well-preserved Piscichnus waitemata in tidal-flat deposits of the Miocene Shirahama Formation, southwestern Japan and its ichnological, palaeoecological,	4
Plant stem trace fossils from fluvial deposits of the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana, USA	4

Possible shod-hominin tracks on South Africa’s Cape coast	4
Neoichnology of Rhinella dorbignyi (Bufonidae) burrows: improving the recognition and interpretation of toad burrows	4
Decoupling fossil trackways from trackmaker identity in locomotion studies	4
Microcoprolite morphotypes from the Revueltian (Upper Triassic: Norian) age Homestead Site, Garita Creek Formation, east-central New Mexico, USA	3
The importance of laboratory-based neoichnological experiments for aquatic palaeoecological analyses	3
Taphonomic history of a dinosaur skeleton from the upper Cretaceous Frenchman Formation, Canada: insights from ancient rhizoetchings and invertebrate bioerosion trace fossils	3
Fundalutum tielongtanensis isp. nov., the first record of anomuran microcoprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Tielongtan Group of the Western Kunlun area, NW Tibet	3
Aratichnus igen. nov. from the Eocene-aged Baronia Formation, Àger Basin, Lleida, Spain	3
Martin G. Lockley (1950–2023): prime mover of vertebrate footprint studies	3
Burrow systems of modern subterranean rodents (Ctenomyidae): key neoichnologic features and recognition of fossil examples	3
Cochlichnus -like traces produced by chironomid midge larvae (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) and a summary of traces produced by modern chironomids	3
Pleistocene fossil snake traces on South Africa’s Cape south coast	2
The Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary in the Kurovice section (Southern Moravia, Czech Republic): trace fossils, stable isotopes, and magnetic susceptibility	2
Identifying and accounting for outcrop constraints on observations in field-based ichnological studies	2
Scolicia,ichnotaxonomic practices, and the limits of behavioural convergence	2
Taxonomic reappraisal of Nihilichnus from taphonomic perspectives of crocodile predatory ecology	2
Dating the Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South Africa’s Cape south coast	2
The new ichnospecies Teredolites solitarius and its taphonomy from the Cenozoic carbonate intervals of Kutch Basin, India	2
Ichnofabrics and temporal disjunction: Miocene continental trace fossils in the Precambrian basement of the Orinoco Oil Belt of Venezuela	2
Reproducing and understanding a fossil trail in digitized worlds: a protocol to quantitative analyses of movement trajectories	2
Coleopteran burrows from foreshore settings in Florianópolis, Brazil	1
Enigmatic vertebrate swimming trace fossils from the Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada, and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction	1
Gastropod drilling predation on the Tropical middle Eocene bivalve Amussiopecten africanus Cox, 1927 from Kutch, western India	1
Bioerosive ichnofossils in the holotype of Trachycalyptoides achirense (Glyptodontidae, Cingulata) from the Late Miocene Altiplano of Bolivia	1
Panthera onca Linnaeus, 1758 dentalites in megafauna bone remains from the Late Pleistocene of the Brazilian Intertropical Region	1
A new ichnospecies of Nihilichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006 from the Palaeogene of South America: trace makers and ichnological and palaeobiological implications	1
A new ichnospecies of Machichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006 from the Quaternary of Northeastern Brazil: insights into rodent interactions with extinct megafaun	1
Soft-sediment deformation structures in the Lower Cretaceous Robberg Formation, South Africa: distinguishing the effects of dinosaurs and earthquakes in an estuarine, rift basin setting	1
Bioturbation changing porosity, permeability, and fracturability in chalk? Insights from an Upper Cretaceous chalk reservoir (Buda Formation, Texas, USA)	1
Palaeobiological and geochemical aspects of reptilian coprolites from a Maastrichtian Deccan volcano-sedimentary intertrappean deposit of central India	1
An incisive and innovative ichnologist: remembering the outstanding contributions of Dr. S. George Pemberton, Distinguished University Professor, F.R.S.C	1
New records of Ctenopholeus in the early Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Bundenbach, SW Germany	1
Distribution of bone modification traces attributed to tungid fleas on a large late Pleistocene specimen of Glyptodon clavipes, Mar del Plata, Argentina	1
The unusual, unique ichnology of the rock hyrax ( Procavia capensis ) and possible Pleistocene tracks and traces from South Africa	1
Effects of X-ray computed tomography (CT) on the ichnologic interpretation of the Mira River estuary sediment core, SW Portugal	1