OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Papers in Palaeontology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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Silurian freshwater arthropod from northwest China	25
Taxonomic and palaeobiological implications of a large, pathological sabretooth (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Lower Pliocene of South Africa	25
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Radiolarian response to environmental changes at the Sinemurian–Pliensbachian transition in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	12
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High diversity of siliceous sponges in Western Tethyan areas during the Eocene: palaeobiogeographical, ecological and taxonomic significance	11
The oldest dairoidid crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Parthenopoidea) from the Eocene of Spain	10
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Silurian (late Llandovery – Wenlock) conodont fauna and biostratigraphy from the Yanbian area of Sichuan Province, south‐west China	9
Late Ordovician (Katian) linguliform microbrachiopods from north‐eastern Yunnan, South China	9
The transverse disc‐like diaphragm in the basal Cambrian medusozoan Olivooides: its nature, possible functions and evolutionary implications	8
Healed injuries, ontogeny and scleritome construction in a Late Ordovician machaeridian (Annelida, Aphroditiformia)	8
A peirosaurid mandible from the Albian–Cenomanian (Lower Cretaceous) of Algeria and the taxonomic content of Hamadasuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Peirosauridae)	8
Shedding light on the enigmatic extinct insect order Glosselytrodea: new diversity and key morphological insights into non‐tegmenized Permian forms	8
Cranial anatomy and systematics of Dendrerpeton cf. helogenes (Tetrapoda, Temnospondyli) from the Pennsylvanian of Joggins, revisited through micro‐CT scanning	8
Extraordinary Ordovician trilobite Fantasticolithus gen. nov. from Peru and its bearing on the trinucleimorph hypothesis	8
Early Jurassic coprolites: insights into palaeobotany and the feeding behaviour of dinosaurs	8
Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria)	8
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An unexpected late paroxyclaenid (Mammalia, Cimolesta) out of Europe: dental evidence from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills, Pakistan	7
Palaeoscolecids from the Ludlow Series of Leintwardine, Herefordshire (UK): the latest occurrence of palaeoscolecids in the fossil record	7
Carboniferous horseshoe crab musculature suggests anatomical conservatism within Xiphosurida	7
Diversity of limb long bone morphology among proboscideans: how to be the biggest one in the family	7
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The end of the ‘living fossil’ tale? A new look at Triassic specimens assigned to the tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis (Notostraca) and associated phyllopods from the Vosges region (eastern F	6
Bone histology of dinocephalians (Therapsida, Dinocephalia): palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences	6
New insights into the sea spider fauna (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) of La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône, France (Jurassic, Callovian)	6
A new procolophonid with complex dentition from the Late Triassic of southwest England	6
Macroalgae from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota	6
Cryptic moulting behaviour of some Carboniferous Ostracoda	6
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Multiple occurrences of pathologies suggesting a common and severe bone infection in a population of the Australian Pleistocene giant, Genyornis newtoni (Aves, Dromornithidae)	6
The brachiopod faunas from the Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician; Tremadocian–Floian) of the Zagora area, Anti‐Atlas, Morocco: evidence for a biodiversity hub in Gondwana	6
The first edrioasteroid echinoderm from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China	6
Microstructural description of the maniraptoran egg Protoceratopsidovum	6
New information on the Jurassic lepidosauromorph Marmoretta oxoniensis	6
Evolutionary–phylogenetic pathway of the Cretaceous ammonite genusAegocriocerasand its relationship toJuddicerasspp. andCrioceratitesspp.	5
Taxonomy and diversity of slit‐band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA	5
Advanced crown‐group Rossellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida) resembling extant taxa from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota	5
Elucidating the morphology and ecology of Eoandromeda octobrachiata from the Ediacaran of South Australia	5
Cranial remains of Ramsayia magna from the Late Pleistocene of Australia and the evolution of gigantism in wombats (Marsupialia, Vombatidae)	5
A new chelid turtle (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina	5
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A new gecko (Squamata, Gekkota) from the Eocene of Geiseltal (Germany) implies long‐term persistence of European Sphaerodactylidae	5
First occurrence of Nyssa endocarps and associated fungi in the Oligocene of South China: palaeogeographical and palaeoecological significance	4
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Pleurotomariida (Gastropoda) from the upper Anisian platform carbonates of the Dolomites (Southern Alps, Italy): systematics, palaeobiogeography and Triassic recovery	4
Phylogenetic position of Bohemiacinctus gen. nov. (Echinodermata, Cincta) from the Cambrian of Bohemia: implications for macroevolution and the role of taxon sampling in palaeobiological system	4
Two new species of small‐bodied pachycephalosaurine (Dinosauria, Marginocephalia) from the uppermost Cretaceous of North America suggest hidden diversity in well‐sampled formations	4
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The first belemnite of boreal ancestry from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of the western Tethys: implications for belemnite ecology	4
A gigantic new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from Middle Miocene tropical environments of La Venta in northern South America	4
Boreognathus pogorevichi, a remarkable new polychaete annelid from the lower Permian of the Pechora Basin, Russia	4
An early Cambrian mackenziid reveals links to modular Ediacaran macro‐organisms	4
Late Ordovician and early Silurian virgianid and stricklandioid brachiopods from North Greenland: implications for a warm‐water faunal province	4
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Evolution of filter‐feeding in aquatic insects dates back to the Middle Triassic: new evidence from stem‐group mayflies (Insecta, Ephemerida) from Grès à Voltzia, Vosges, France	4
A new species of the Cambrian bivalved euarthropod Pectocaris with axially differentiated enditic armatures	4
A late Asbian (Mississippian) stratotype for England: Trowbarrow Quarry, Cumbria, UK	4
The dawn of the flying reptiles: first Triassic record in the southern hemisphere	4
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Sclerite assembly, articulation and protective system of Lower Devonian machaeridians	4
A taxonomic revision and cranial description of Terrestrisuchus gracilis (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Pant‐y‐Ffynnon Quarry (southern Wales)	3
Influence of abiotic and biotic factors on benthic marine community composition, structure and stability: a multidisciplinary approach to molluscan assemblages from the Miocene of northern Germany	3
Macroflora from Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Hicks Creek, southern Talkeetna Mountains, south‐central Alaska	3
Evolutionarily ancient deep‐water seep communities in the Eocene Tethys: examples from Buje (Croatia)	3

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Allometry in Late Devonian Podocopa ostracods (Crustacea) and its implications for ostracod ontogeny	3
A new species of early Cambrian arthropod reconstructed from exceptionally preserved mandibles and associated small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs)	3
The oldest evidence of brooding in a Devonian blastoid reveals the evolution of new reproductive strategies in early echinoderms	3
Phylogeny, disparity and mass extinction response in the trilobite order Harpetida	3
Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pliocene cathartiform Dryornis pampeanus Moreno & Mercerat	3
The rise and fall of the Iberian cobras (Elapidae, Naja) in the context of their European and global fossil record	3
Three‐dimensional reconstruction of the in situ mode of life of the Cambrian coral Cambroctoconus: asexual reproduction and colony growth in immediate response to cryptic habitats	3
Benthic pterobranchs from the Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Konservat‐Lagerstätte of Utah	3
A possibly deep branching artiopodan arthropod from the lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (North Greenland)	3
Exceptionally preserved radiodont arthropods from the lower Cambrian (Stage 3) Qingjiang Lagerstätte of Hubei, South China and the biogeographic and diversification patterns of radiodonts	3
Katian (Late Ordovician) trilobites of the North Qilian Mountains and their palaeogeographical implications for the Proto‐Tethys Archipelagic Ocean	3
Evaluating growth in Macrospondylus bollensis (Crocodylomorpha, Teleosauroidea) in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany	2
Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina	2
Redefining the Huayquerian Stage (Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene) of the South American chronostratigraphic scale based on biostratigraphical analyses and geochronological dating	2
Chondrichthyan (Holocephali, Squalomorphii and Batomorphii) remains from the Badenian of southern Hungary (Tekeres, Mecsek Mountains): the first deepwater cartilaginous fishes from the Middle Miocene	2
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The Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from the southern Qilian Mountains, north‐western China	2
Eucera bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Eucerini) preserved in their brood cells from late Holocene (middle Neoglacial) palaeosols of southwest Portugal	2
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A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil	2
Revision of the pachycormid fish Saurostomus esocinus Agassiz from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of Europe, with new insight into the origins of suspension‐feeding in Pachycormidae	2
Turtles all the way down: Neogene pig‐nosed turtle fossil from southern Australia reveals cryptic freshwater turtle invasions and extinctions	2
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Early adaptations of true flies (Diptera) to moist and aquatic continental environments	2
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The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat‐Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation	2
Early Cretaceous enigmatic insect group showing unique wing venations and antennal sensilla	2
The last horned armadillos: phylogeny and decline of Peltephilidae (Xenarthra, Cingulata)	2
Two almost‐forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring	2
The primitive giant panda Kretzoiarctos beatrix (Carnivora, Ursidae) from the hominid locality of Hammerschmiede: dietary implications	2
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An abundant sea anemone from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstӓtte, USA	2
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The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange	1
Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño	1
The dental system of †Kazanichthys viatkensis (Actinopterygii, Acrolepididae) from the middle Permian of European Russia: palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences	1
Enigmatic discoidal macrofossils with central ring from the Ediacaran Jiangchuan biota, Southwest China	1
On the origin of the Oriental plane tree (Platanus orientalis L.)	1
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North American Spathian (upper Olenekian, Lower Triassic) neogondolellin conodonts	1
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Evolutionary trends of caviomorph rodents as elucidated using their oldest foot anatomy	1
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A new medium‐sized moradisaurine captorhinid eureptile from the Permian of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean) and correlation with the co‐occurring ichnogenus Hyloidichnus	1
Digital endocasts from two late Eocene carnivores shed light on the evolution of the brain at the origin of Carnivora	1
Rostral and body shape analyses reveal cryptic diversity of Late Jurassic batomorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Europe	1
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Evolutionary pattern ofMetacaremysgen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America	1
The recumbirostran Hapsidopareion lepton from the early Permian (Cisuralian: Artinskian) of Oklahoma reassessed using HRμCT, and the placement of Recumbirostra on the amniote stem	1
Palynology of a short sequence of the Lower Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation at Cottonwood Canyon (Wyoming): age, depositional environments and plant diversity	1
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New early Cambrian sponges of the Siberian platform and the origins of spiculate crown‐group demosponges	1
Revision of Sagenopteris (Caytoniales): a major lineage of the Mesozoic seed plants	1
A giant phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India with new insights on phytosaur migration, endemism and extinction	1
An early Eocene fossil from the British London Clay elucidates the evolutionary history of the enigmatic Archaeotrogonidae (Aves, Strisores)	1
New and revised small shelly fossil record from the lower Cambrian of northern Iran	1
A new vampyromorph species from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône Lagerstätte	1
A possible archaic precursor of the octocoral structural plan from the Ordovician of Estonia	1
Trilobites of trinucleid, raphiophorid and cyclopygid associations from the Ordovician (Darriwilian – early Katian) of the west Balkhash region and Betpak‐Dala, Central Kazakhstan	1
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Putative hydroid symbionts recorded by bioclaustrations in fossil molluscan shells: a revision and reinterpretation of the cecidogenusRodocanalis	1
First report of silicified wood from a late Pennsylvanian intramontane basin in the Pyrenees: systematic affinities and palaeoecological implications	1
Caviomorphs (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from Pampa Castillo, Chile: new octodontoid records and biochronological implications	1
Overview of Psocodea in Eocene Oise amber and implications for the transition to modern‐day barklice communities	1
Not a jaguar after all? Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pleistocene felid Panthera gombaszoegensis	1
A Burgess Shale mandibulate arthropod with a pygidium: a case of convergent evolution	1
Systematics, ontogeny and palaeobiogeography of the genus Orthacanthus (Diplodoselachidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lower Permian of France	1
A new Cenomanian acanthomorph fish from the El Chango quarry (Chiapas, south‐eastern Mexico) and its implications for the early diversification and evolutionary trends of acanthopterygians	1
First pan‐trionychid turtle (Testudines, Pan‐Trionychidae) from the Palaeogene of Africa	1
A new cockroach (Blattodea, Rhipidoblattinidae) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK, and the earliest likely occurrence of aposematic colouration in coc	1
The neodiapsid Thadeosaurus colcanapi from the upper Permian of Madagascar	1
A Silurian ophiuroid with soft‐tissue preservation	1
A gomphothere (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Quaternary of the Kashmir Valley, India	1