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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic continental biostratigraphy — Links to the Standard Global Chronostratigraphic Scale	99
An evaluation of biostratigraphic markers across multiple geological sections in the search for the GSSP of the base of the Serpukhovian Stage (Mississippian)	16
Abnormalities in early Paleozoic trilobites from central and eastern China	16
Tsuga seed cones from the late Paleogene of southwestern China and their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental implications	14
Early Cambrian organophosphatic brachiopods from the Xinji Formation, at Shuiyu section, Shanxi Province, North China	14
Record of the Carnian Pluvial Episode in the Polish microflora	12
Watsonella crosbyi from the lower Cambrian (Terreneuvian, Stage 2) Yanjiahe Formation in Three Gorges Area, South China	12
Middle–Late Ordovician chitinozoans from Songliang of Qiaojia, western South China, and their biostratigraphic implications	12
Revision of Chunerpeton tianyiense (Lissamphibia, Caudata): Is it a cryptobranchid salamander?	11
Qurliqnoria (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the Upper Miocene of Çorakyerler (Central Anatolia, Turkey) and its biogeographic implications	11
Palaeoenvironmental changes recorded in the palynology and palynofacies of a Late Permian Marker Mudstone (Galilee Basin, Australia)	11
Gondolelloid multielement conodont apparatus (Scythogondolella) from the Lower Triassic of Jiangsu, East China, revealed by high-resolution X-ray microtomography	11
Vegetation history with implication of climate changes and human impacts over the last 9000 years in the Lake Nanyi area, Anhui Province, East China	10
Southwestern Gondwana’s Permian climate amelioration recorded in coal-bearing deposits of the Moatize sub-basin (Mozambique)	10
Response of Carnian Pluvial Episode evidenced by organic carbon isotopic excursions from western Hubei, South China	9
Giant cordaitalean trees in early Permian riparian canopies in North China: Evidence from anatomically preserved trunks in Yangquan, Shanxi Province	9
Multidisciplinary study of the Mechetlino Quarry section (Southern Urals, Russia) — The GSSP candidate for the base of the Kungurian Stage (Lower Permian)	9
Dickinsonia from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China	9
Provenance of the Hangu Formation, Lesser Himalaya, Pakistan: Insight from the detrital zircon U-Pb dating and spinel geochemistry	9
A new form of wapiti Cervus canadensis Erxleben, 1777 (Cervidae, Mammalia) from the Late Pleistocene of France	9
New insights on the palaeobiology and biostratigraphy of the acritarch Trachyhystrichosphaera aimika: A potential late Mesoproterozoic to Tonian index fossil	9
Fulu biota, a new exceptionally-preserved Cambrian fossil assemblage from the Longha Formation in southeastern Yunnan	9
Refining the termination age of the Cryogenian Sturtian glaciation in South China	9
Wildfires in the Early Triassic of northeastern Pangaea: Evidence from fossil charcoal in the Bogda Mountains, northwestern China	9
Main biotic and climatic events in Early Permian of the Western Urals, Russia, as exemplified by the shallow-water biota of the early Kungurian lagoons	8

Reinvestigation of conchostracans (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from the Permian–Triassic transition in Southwest China	8
Biostratigraphy and important biotic events in the Western Verkhoyansk Region around the Sakmarian–Artinskian boundary	8
Palynofacies analysis for interpreting paleoenvironment and hydrocarbon potential of Triassic–Jurassic strata in the Sichuan Basin, China	8
Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy of the Willara Formation in the Canning Basin, Western Australia	8
Early Permian radiolarians from Southern Thailand, the deglaciation of Gondwana and the age of the basal Ratburi Group	7
Sinoceras chinense (Foord, 1888) in western Thailand: first identification outside China	7
The Paleogene atmospheric CO2 concentrations reconstructed using stomatal analysis of fossil Metasequoia needles	7
Discovery of charophyte flora across the Cretaceous–Paleocene transition in the Jiaolai Basin	7
Beetle or roach: systematic position of the enigmatic Umenocoleidae based on new material from Zhonggou Formation in Jiuquan, Northwest China, and a morphocladistic analysis	7
Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Pliocene fan-delta system of the Vera Basin (SE Spain): Fossil assemblages, ichnology and taphonomy	7
Evidence of recurrent wildfire from the Permian coal deposits of India: Petrographic, scanning electron microscopic and palynological analyses of fossil charcoal	7
Toward a unified and refined Ordovician stratigraphy for the western Yangtze region, South China	7
Oceanic redox evolution across the end-Permian mass extinction at Penglaitan section, South China	7
First fossil record of Canarium (Burseraceae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, southeastern China and its paleoecological implications	7
New materials of Cisuralian (early Permian) radiolarians from western Cambodia: Paleobiogeographic implications in the Paleotethys	6
Miocene pinhole borer ambrosia beetles: new species of Diapus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae)	6
Pliocene Albizia (Fabaceae) from Jharkhand, eastern India: reappraisal of its biogeography during the Cenozoic in Southeast Asia	6
Conodont biostratigraphy and carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of the Middle to Upper Ordovician on the western Yangtze Platform, South China	6
Middle Jurassic radiolarians from Jinlang, Zedong, southern Xizang (Tibet), China	6
A new study of Olenekian–Anisian boundary conodont biostratigraphy of the Tulong section in Himalaya Terrane, southern Tibet	6
Sauropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation of Yunnan Province and the pre-Cretaceous sauropodomorph trackways from China	6
Nonmarine ostracodes at the Permian–Triassic boundary of the central part of the East European Platform	6
Paleosols and host rocks from the Middle–Upper Permian reference section of the Kazan Volga region, Russia: A case study	6
Organic walled microfossils from the Neoproterozoic Owk Shale, Kurnool Group, South India	6
A remarkable new fossil species of Amplectister with peculiar hindleg modifications (Coleoptera: Histeridae): further evidence for myrmecophily in Cretaceous clown beetles	6
First record of organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation of the Tumen Group in western Shandong, North China	6
A whole-plant monocot from the Lower Cretaceous	6
Tectonic regime transition of the western South China Block in early Cambrian: Evidence from the Meishucun volcanic ash beds	6
Flora of the Kazanian–Urzhumian boundary in the middle Permian of the Russian Platform	5
Conodont biostratigraphy of Upper Devonian–Lower Carboniferous deposits in eastern Alborz (Mighan section), North Iran	5
Taphonomic signatures on modern molluscs and corals from Red Sea coast, southern Saudi Arabia	5
A new species of winged fruits of Podopterus (Caryophyllales, Polygonaceae) from the Miocene amber, Chiapas, Mexico	5
Evolution of tooth crown shape in Mesozoic birds, and its adaptive significance with respect to diet	5
Short-term climate and vegetation dynamics in Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) during early Eocene	5
Permian and Triassic radiolarians from chert breccia in the Nong Prue area, western Thailand: its origin and depositional setting in the Paleotethys	5
The oldest giant lacewings (Neuroptera: Kalligrammatidae) from the Lower Jurassic of Germany	5
A new extinct ochotonid genus from the late Pleistocene of the Russian Far East	5
Lowermost occurrence of ostracod Cypridea species in East Asia and implications for the non-marine Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary	5
Anatomy of Stigmaria asiatica Jongmans et Gothan from the Asselian (lowermost Permian) of Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, North China	5
Flower inclusions of Canarium (Burseraceae) from Miocene Zhangpu amber (China)	5
Graptolithina from the Guole Biota (Furongian, upper Cambrian) of South China	5
Dinoturbation in Upper Jurassic siliciclastic levels at Cabo Mondego (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal): evidences in a fluvial-dominated deltaic succession	5
Anatomically preserved cordaitalean trees from the Pennsylvanian of Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, and their implication for a perhumid climate in North China Block	5
Famennian conodonts from the Hongguleleng Formation at the Bulongguoer stratotype section, western Junggar, Northwest China	5
Benthic primary producers in exceptionally preserved Cambrian biotas of North China	5
The filter-feeders signal: response of ostracods to marine environmental changes in the Devonian F–F event	4
Cambrian (Series 2 to Miaolingian) platform facies from central Sonora, Mexico and the regional correlation	4
The evolutionary relationships of the earliest known cycloneuralians and a new record from the Cambrian Fortunian of South China	4
Sequence stratigraphy of the Paleocene succession in the Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt: insights from microplankton biostratigraphy and benthic foraminifer paleoenvironments	4
The effect of character and outgroup choice on the phylogenetic position of the Jurassic dinosaur Chilesaurus diegosaurezi	4

Radiolaria and planktonic foraminifera from Sarama composite section of the Kannaviou Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous, Cyprus)	4
Fossil involucres of Ostrya (Betulaceae) from the early Oligocene of Yunnan and their biogeographic implications	4
Geochemical characteristics of the Chang 7 Member in the southwestern Ordos Basin, China: the influence of sedimentary environment on the organic matter enrichment	4
Organic-walled microfossils from Cambrian Stage IV in the Jiaobang section, eastern Guizhou, China	4
A new early Cambrian bivalved euarthropod from Yunnan, China and general interspecific morphological and size variations in Cambrian hymenocarines	4
A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah	4
The first fossil Parascleroderma (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae): a new species in mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	4
The succession of the mid-Bashkirian ammonoids Cancelloceras and Gastrioceras in North China	4
A Miocene flora from the Toupi Formation in Jiangxi Province, southeastern China	4
Sedimentary response to sea level and climate changes in the inner sea of Maldives carbonate platform over the past 30 kyr	4
Discovery of Iliestheria (Crustacea: spinicaudatan) from the Lower Jurassic Sangonghe Formation in Junggar Basin, northwestern China	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
Macroscopic fossil charcoals as proxy of a local fire linked to conifer-rich forest from the late Pliocene of northwestern Yunnan, Southwest China	4
Trace fossils from the Lower Triassic of North China — a potential signature of the gradual recovery of a terrestrial ecosystem	4
New dustywings (Insecta: Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae) from the Miocene Zhangpu amber	4
Pleuromeia discovered from the Middle Triassic Linjia Formation of Benxi, Northeast China	4
Radula heinrichsii (Radulaceae, Porellales), a leafy liverwort from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar	4
Eocene nannofossils and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Kuldana Formation in Yadgar area, Muzaffarabad, northern Pakistan	4
New fish assemblages from the Middle Permian from the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas, USA	4
Skeletal variation in the early clathrodictyid stromatoporoids of Upper Ordovician and its paleoecological and phylogenetic implications	4
Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous palynology of the CSDP-2 Borehole in the southern Yellow Sea, China	4
An upright psaroniaceous stump and two surrounding pecopteroids from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora	4
The middle–late Tournaisian crisis in conodont diversity: a comparison between Northeast Laurussia and Northeast Siberia	4
Ordovician conodonts from the Ban Tha Kradan area, western Thailand	4
Sedimentary facies and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Oligocene larger-benthic-foraminifera-dominated Qom Formation in the northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway	4