OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palaeoworld 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A new Archipsocidae (Psocodea: Psocomorpha) from the middle Miocene Zhangpu amber, China	18
The disappearance of European dirk-toothed cats	14
Benthic primary producers in exceptionally preserved Cambrian biotas of North China	13
New record of Brachyoxylon wood from the Lower Cretaceous of Qingyuan, southeastern China and its palaeoclimatic implications	13
New fossil woods from the middle Eocene climate optimum of north-central Turkey	13
Caenogastropoda and Stylommatophora (Gastropoda) from the mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber of East Asia	11
Lower–middle Frasnian organic carbon isotope record of conodonts in East European Platform	11
Sedimentary facies and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Oligocene larger-benthic-foraminifera-dominated Qom Formation in the northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway	11
First fossil record of Brachyptera (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) in Eocene Baltic amber	10
Editorial Board	10
An enigmatic large discoidal fossil from the Pennsylvanian of County Clare, Ireland	9
The age and depositional environments of the lower Karoo Moatize Coalfield of Mozambique: insights into the postglacial history of central Gondwana	9
Conodonts suggest a late Spathian (late Early Triassic) age for Thaisaurus chonglakmanii (Reptilia: Ichthyosauromorpha) from Thailand	9
Archaeocyaths: alternatively explained as consortia of siphonous algae and cyanobacteria-like microbes in shallow Cambrian seas	9
A new dichobunoid artiodactyl from the middle Eocene of Yunnan, China	9
Litho- and biostratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic Mozduran Formation, Kopet-Dagh, Iran, and its paleoenvironmental implications	9
The sedimentary facies and tectono-stratigraphic successions of the Carboniferous–Lower Permian deposits in western South Qiangtang Block: Implication for a rifting process on the Gondwana margin	8
Early Neoproterozoic well-preserved stromatolites from southern Liaoning, North China: characteristics and paleogeographic implications	8
Warm and humid Trans-Himalaya during the late Miocene: plant fossil evidence	8
Unraveling the Early Devonian provenance of the Longmenshan region through detrital zircon records: Implications for floral differentiation in South China	8
First record of Macaca mulatta (Cercopithecidae: Papionini) from the Taedong River Basin, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	8
Small cornulitids from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of Estonia	7
δ18O and δ13C of planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides ruber: Effects of test size sampling and laboratory treatment	7
Cretaceous climate variations indicated by palynoflora in South China	7
Lower Jurassic trace fossil Zoophycos from the Ksour Mountains of northwestern Algeria and their palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental significance	7

A new early Cambrian bivalved euarthropod from Yunnan, China and general interspecific morphological and size variations in Cambrian hymenocarines	7
A novel gymnosperm reproductive organ from the Jurassic of China	7
Earliest upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) record of bivalve Pinna (Pinnidae) from the Kopet-Dagh Basin, northeastern Iran and its possible predators	7
First fossil record of Canarium (Burseraceae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, southeastern China and its paleoecological implications	6
Hydrodynamics and sliding posture analysis of the Cambrian arthropod Ercaicunia multinodosa	6
The Moscovian staffellids from Ziyun County, Guizhou Province, China: the effects of sedimentary environment on fusulinid taxonomic discrepancy	6
Middle Triassic (Muschelkalk) transgression in the West Tethys: biostratigraphic evidence from Sardinia (Italy)	6
Gondolelloid multielement conodont apparatus (Scythogondolella) from the Lower Triassic of Jiangsu, East China, revealed by high-resolution X-ray microtomography	6
The first report of epipunctae in non-plaesiomyid brachiopods from the lowest Silurian of southeastern China	6
Uppermost Devonian–Lower Carboniferous conodonts from the Indert Formation in the Shine Jinst area, South Mongolia	6
Early Eocene marine microgastropods from the Zhupure Formation in Yadong, Southern Tibet, China	6
Evolution of tooth crown shape in Mesozoic birds, and its adaptive significance with respect to diet	6
Discovery of charophyte flora across the Cretaceous–Paleocene transition in the Jiaolai Basin	6
Liverwort fossils from the Late Triassic of Baiyin City, Gansu Province, and their geological significance	6
Dickinsonia from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China	6
Gigantic gastropods from the Middle Triassic Qingyan biota of Guizhou	6
Middle Jurassic radiolarians from Jinlang, Zedong, southern Xizang (Tibet), China	6
Zonation and biofacies of the Early Mississippian conodonts from Baoshan, Yunnan, Southwest China	6
Age of the Silurian Wuxiahe Formation in Langao, Northwest China: New conodont data	6
A low-diversity, silicified Hirnantia Fauna from Butuo, southwestern Sichuan, on the western margin of Yangtze Platform	6
Anatomy of Stigmaria asiatica Jongmans et Gothan from the Asselian (lowermost Permian) of Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, North China	5
New dustywings (Insecta: Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae) from the Miocene Zhangpu amber	5
New data on the Cambrian–Ordovician (Tremadocian) conodont biostratigraphy of Guizhou Province, Southwest China	5
First hadrosauroid record from Petreşti-Arini (Transylvanian Basin, Romania; Upper Cretaceous) and its implications for the evolution of the Hațeg Island vertebrate faunas	5
Mid-Carboniferous rugose corals from Xinjiang, Northwest China: Evolutionary and palaeogeographical implications	5
Unique lowermost Cambrian small shelly fossils (SSFs) from eastern Yunnan, South China: implications for the early diversification history of animals	5
The Paleocene soritid foraminifer Mardinella daviesi (Henson, 1950) from southeastern Turkey	5
Petrographic, palaeofloral, and taphonomic characteristics of the Permian coal-bearing sequences in Korba Basin, Central India: Implications for their palaeoecology and depositional settings	5
A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah	5
Comparative morphometrics for species discrimination and analysis in the tabulate coral Catenipora from Baltoscandia	5
Famennian conodonts from the Hongguleleng Formation at the Bulongguoer stratotype section, western Junggar, Northwest China	5
A new marsupialiform from Upper Cretaceous of Songliao Basin, Heilongjiang, China	5
A new Permian species of Paraconularia from Abaga Banner, Inner Mongolia	5
Geochemical characteristics of the Chang 7 Member in the southwestern Ordos Basin, China: the influence of sedimentary environment on the organic matter enrichment	4
Linglongtaestheria (Spinicaudata) from the Upper Jurassic of Qinglong, Hebei Province, northeastern China	4
Deep-water trace fossils in the Ilfjellet rift basin (Middle Ordovician), central Norwegian Caledonides	4
Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy of the Willara Formation in the Canning Basin, Western Australia	4
The identification of ‘feather-like’ fossils in the Palaeozoic: Algae, hydroids, or graptolites?	4
Editorial Board	4
Diversity and discrimination of large ornithopods revealed through their tracks (Lower Cretaceous, Spain): A phenetic correlation approach	4
A new species of winged fruits of Podopterus (Caryophyllales, Polygonaceae) from the Miocene amber, Chiapas, Mexico	4
Estimating palaeoatmospheric CO2 levels based on fossil Ginkgoites cuticles from the Middle Jurassic of Northeast Iran	4
Lower Jurassic corals from the Pamir Mountains, Central Asia	4
Unique 3D preservation of Rhuddanian (Silurian) Callograptidae (Gorny Altai, Russia)	4
A new fulgoroidian insect (Hemiptera: Surijokocixiidae) from the Middle Triassic Tongchuan Formation of northwestern China	4
Editorial Board	4
Conodonts across the Lochkovian/Pragian boundary in central Guangxi, South China	4
Lower Cisuralian brachiopod faunas from the Lhasa and South Qiangtang blocks in Tibet and their biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications	4
An upright psaroniaceous stump and two surrounding pecopteroids from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora	4
Editorial Board	4

Cheirocystis liexiensis, a new rhombiferan blastozoan (Echinodermata) from Lower Ordovician of South China Block	4
Comments on “Larger benthic foraminiferal assemblages and their response to Middle Eocene Climate Optimum in the Kohat Basin (Pakistan, eastern Tethys)” by Kamran et al.	4
Per-capita change rates of the Phanerozoic Earth-life system exhibited Zipf distributions	4
Widespread Thalassinoides facies from the upper Silurian of South China: A case study from the northwestern Hunan Province, middle to upper Yangtze Block	4
Ordovician conodonts from the Ban Tha Kradan area, western Thailand	4
No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. (2023)	4
Uppermost Darriwilian radiolarians from the lower part of Wulalike Formation, Northwest Ordos Basin, North China	4
Late Pleistocene and Holocene malacological and theriological faunas from the Tetyukhinskaya Cave (southern Far East, Russia) and their palaeoecological implications	4
Chuaria Walcott from the early Cambrian Qingjiang biota: a taxon persisted for billions of years	4
Book review	4
Craniomandibular osteology and the first record of the ocular skeleton in a South American rhynchosaur (Archosauromorpha, Hyperodapedontinae)	4
Devonian–Carboniferous transition in various facies of Northeast Laurussia (North Urals)	4
Radiolaria and planktonic foraminifera from Sarama composite section of the Kannaviou Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous, Cyprus)	4