OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Papers in Palaeontology 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
Reassessment of historic ‘microsaurs’ from Joggins, Nova Scotia, reveals hidden diversity in the earliest amniote ecosystem	18
Evolutionary pattern of Metacaremys gen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America	17
The post‐embryonic ontogeny of the early Cambrian trilobite Estaingia bilobata from South Australia: trunk development and phylogenetic implications	16
Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from North Greenland: new light on metazoan diversity in early Cambrian shelf environments	15
New and revised small shelly fossil record from the lower Cambrian of northern Iran	15
A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil	15
Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of western USA and India	13
A unique hybodontiform skeleton provides novel insights into Mesozoic chondrichthyan life	13
Appearances can be deceptive: bizarre shell microanatomy and histology in a new Triassic turtle (Testudinata) from Argentina at the dawn of turtles	13
New information on the Jurassic lepidosauromorph Marmoretta oxoniensis	13
Elemgasem nubilus: a new brachyrostran abelisaurid (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina	11
Ostracods from the end‐Permian mass extinction in the Aras Valley section (north‐west Iran)	11
A new small, mesorostrine inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from four upper Miocene localities in the Pisco Basin, Peru	11
Rosselichnidae ifam. nov.: burrows with concentric, spiral or eccentric lamination	11
Small shelly fossils and carbon isotopes from the early Cambrian (Stages 3–4) Mural Formation of western Laurentia	11
An Early Devonian actinostelic euphyllophyte with secondary growth from the Emsian of Gaspé (Canada) and the importance of tracheid wall thickening patterns in early euphyllophyte systematics	10
An early‐diverging procolophonid from the lowermost Triassic of South America and the origins of herbivory in Procolophonoidea	10
Exceptional avian pellet from the Paleocene of Patagonia and description of its content: a new species of calyptocephalellid (Neobatrachia) anuran	10
The first Silurian trilobite with three‐dimensionally preserved soft parts reveals novel appendage morphology	10
Critical re‐evaluation of Limulidae uncovers limited Limulus diversity	9
The late Oligocene xenarthran fauna of Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza, Argentina) and its implications for sloth origins and the diversity of Palaeogene cingulates	9
Postcranial anatomy of the extinct terrestrial sloth Simomylodon uccasamamensis (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano, and its evolutionary implications	9
Ontogeny of the trilobite Elrathia kingii (Meek) and comparison of growth rates between Elrathia kingii and Aulacopleura koninckii (Barrande)	9
A Burgess Shale mandibulate arthropod with a pygidium: a case of convergent evolution	9
Extending the footprint record of Pareiasauromorpha to the Cisuralian: earlier appearance and wider palaeobiogeography of the group	9

The earliest baleen whale from the Mediterranean: large‐scale implications of an early Miocene thalassotherian mysticete from Piedmont, Italy	9
An unpredicted ancient colonization of the West Indies by North American rodents: dental evidence of a geomorph from the early Oligocene of Puerto Rico	8
New barklice (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber	8
A new species of the Cambrian bivalved euarthropod Pectocaris with axially differentiated enditic armatures	8
Nasal compartmentalization in Kogiidae (Cetacea, Physeteroidea): insights from a new late Miocene dwarf sperm whale from the Pisco Formation	8
Post‐embryonic development of Fritzolenellus suggests the ancestral morphology of the early developmental stages in Trilobita	8
Tooth replacement in Manidens condorensis: baseline study to address the replacement pattern in dentitions of early ornithischians	7
A previously missing link in the evolution of dasytine soft‐winged flower beetles from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera, Melyridae)	7
The ichnogenus Lumbricaria Münster from the Upper Jurassic of Germany interpreted as faecal strings of ammonites	7
Panderodus from the Waukesha Lagerstätte of Wisconsin, USA: a primitive macrophagous vertebrate predator	7
First pan‐trionychid turtle (Testudines, Pan‐Trionychidae) from the Palaeogene of Africa	7
Redescription and phylogenetic affinities of the caimanine Eocaiman cavernensis (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) from the Eocene of Argentina	7
A late Asbian (Mississippian) stratotype for England: Trowbarrow Quarry, Cumbria, UK	7
The dawn of the flying reptiles: first Triassic record in the southern hemisphere	6
Machine learning confirms new records of maniraptoran theropods in Middle Jurassic UK microvertebrate faunas	6
The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat‐Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation	6
Microstructural description of the maniraptoran egg Protoceratopsidovum	6
Upper Ordovician Thylacocephala (Euarthropoda, Eucrustacea) from Bohemia indicate early ecological differentiation	6
Taxonomical diversity and palaeobiogeographical affinity of belemnites from the Pliensbachian–ToarcianGSSP(Lusitanian Basin, Portugal)	6
Taxonomy and diversity of slit‐band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA	6
A highly pneumatic middle Cretaceous theropod from the British Lower Greensand	6
First non‐amber Mesozoic pseudoscorpion from Upper Triassic deposits of eastern Europe, with a description of two new fossil subfamilies (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Feaellidae)	6
A giant phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India with new insights on phytosaur migration, endemism and extinction	6
An expanded Smithian–Spathian (Lower Triassic) boundary from a reefal build‐up record in Oman: implications for conodont taxonomy, high‐resolution biochronology and the carbon isotope record	5
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	5
Upper Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) marine gastropods from the Cleveland Basin, England: systematics, palaeobiogeography and contribution to biotic recovery from the early Toarcian extinction event	5
A peirosaurid mandible from the Albian–Cenomanian (Lower Cretaceous) of Algeria and the taxonomic content of Hamadasuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Peirosauridae)	5
New insights into the affinities, autoecology, and habit of the Mesozoic fern Weichselia reticulata based on the revision of stems from Bernissart (Mons Basin, Belgium)	5
Early adaptations of true flies (Diptera) to moist and aquatic continental environments	5
Phylogeny, disparity and mass extinction response in the trilobite order Harpetida	5
Biostratigraphy and taxonomy of Drumian (middle Cambrian) agnostid trilobites of the Manuels River Formation, Avalonian Newfoundland, Canada	5
Morphological disparity in the evolution of the ophthalmosaurid forefin: new clues from the Upper Jurassic of Argentina	5
Not a jaguar after all? Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pleistocene felid Panthera gombaszoegensis	5
A new species of early Cambrian arthropod reconstructed from exceptionally preserved mandibles and associated small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs)	5
Silurian (late Llandovery – Wenlock) conodont fauna and biostratigraphy from the Yanbian area of Sichuan Province, south‐west China	5
A revision of Vernicomacanthus Miles with comments on the characters of stem‐group chondrichthyans	4
Organic‐walled microfossils from the Kistedalen Formation, Norway: acritarch chronostratigraphy of the Baltic Miaolingian and evolutionary trends of placoid acritarchs	4
A new vampyromorph species from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône Lagerstätte	4
Tooth eruption in the Early Cretaceous British mammal Triconodon and description of a new species	4
Cranial anatomy and systematics of Dendrerpeton cf. helogenes (Tetrapoda, Temnospondyli) from the Pennsylvanian of Joggins, revisited through micro‐CT scanning	4
Eurasian wanderer: an island sabre‐toothed cat (Felidae, Machairodontinae) in the Far East	4
Trilobites of trinucleid, raphiophorid and cyclopygid associations from the Ordovician (Darriwilian – early Katian) of the west Balkhash region and Betpak‐Dala, Central Kazakhstan	4
An abundant sea anemone from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstӓtte, USA	4
Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pliocene cathartiform Dryornis pampeanus Moreno & Mercerat	4
Lophotrochozoa in the Cambrian evolutionary radiation and the Pelagiella problem	4
The middle Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid Arctoceras blomstrandi: conch morphology and ornamentation in relation to stratigraphy	4
Palynology of a short sequence of the Lower Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation at Cottonwood Canyon (Wyoming): age, depositional environments and plant diversity	4
A new gecko (Squamata, Gekkota) from the Eocene of Geiseltal (Germany) implies long‐term persistence of European Sphaerodactylidae	4