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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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Cambelodon torreensis, a new pinheirodontid multituberculate from the Upper Jurassic of western Portugal	17
Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria)	16
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Temnodontosaurus bromalites from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: hunting, digestive taphonomy and prey preferences in a macropredatory ichthyosaur	15
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A new species of Lophiomeryx from the Eocene of Bujiamiaozi (Ningxia, China) and implications for the early evolution of the family Lophiomerycidae	15
Two almost‐forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring	14
A new chelid turtle (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina	14
Pleurotomariida (Gastropoda) from the upper Anisian platform carbonates of the Dolomites (Southern Alps, Italy): systematics, palaeobiogeography and Triassic recovery	13
A possible archaic precursor of the octocoral structural plan from the Ordovician of Estonia	12
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Overview of Psocodea in Eocene Oise amber and implications for the transition to modern‐day barklice communities	12
A gigantic new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from Middle Miocene tropical environments of La Venta in northern South America	12
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Reproductive organs and fronds of Umkomasiales (Mesozoic seed ferns) from Cañadón Largo Formation (Middle–Upper Triassic), Patagonia, Argentina	11
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The Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from the southern Qilian Mountains, north‐western China	10
Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina	10
Systematics, ontogeny and palaeobiogeography of the genus Orthacanthus (Diplodoselachidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lower Permian of France	10
The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange	10
Astogenetic morphological variation in the bryozoan Prophyllodictya gracilis from the Middle Ordovician of Russia and inferred colony‐wide feeding currents	9
Comment on: Omnidens appendages and the origin of radiodont mouthparts	9

Rostral and body shape analyses reveal cryptic diversity of Late Jurassic batomorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Europe	9
Evaluating growth in Macrospondylus bollensis (Crocodylomorpha, Teleosauroidea) in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany	9
Diving into the past: a new assemblage of Neogene elasmobranch microfossils from the eastern Pacific of South America	9
Early detritivory and sedimentivory in insects based on in situ gut contents from Triassic aquatic nymphs	8
The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: a new mid‐sized pareiasaur Yinshanosaurus angustus and its implications for the phy	8
Fossilized soft tissues in Palaeozoic bryozoans	8
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A new euarthropod from the Soom Shale (Ordovician) Konservat‐Lagerstätte, South Africa, with exceptional preservation of the connective endoskeleton and myoanatomy	8
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Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, North Slope of Alaska, and their palaeobiogeographical significance	8
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The early Cambrian Bushizheia yangi and head segmentation in upper stem‐group euarthropods	7
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The first pterosaur from the Bauru Group: an azhdarchid from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil	7
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Phylogenetic patterns in fossil and living billfishes (Istiophoriformes, Istiophoridae): evidence from the Central Mediterranean	7
A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem‐gnathostomes)	7
Feeding strategies of the Pleistocene insular dwarf elephants Palaeoloxodon falconeri and Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis	7
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New barklice (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber	7
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
Radiolarian response to environmental changes at the Sinemurian–Pliensbachian transition in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	6
Diversity of limb long bone morphology among proboscideans: how to be the biggest one in the family	6
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The first edrioasteroid echinoderm from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China	6
A late Asbian (Mississippian) stratotype for England: Trowbarrow Quarry, Cumbria, UK	6
Cryptic moulting behaviour of some Carboniferous Ostracoda	6
Exceptionally preserved eggs show philopatric resilience of phasianids to environmental fragmentation during the Middle–Late Miocene transition in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula	6
Advanced crown‐group Rossellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida) resembling extant taxa from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota	6
Late Ordovician and early Silurian virgianid and stricklandioid brachiopods from North Greenland: implications for a warm‐water faunal province	5
Allometry in Late Devonian Podocopa ostracods (Crustacea) and its implications for ostracod ontogeny	5
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Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: analysis of a tooth‐based fauna from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Valanginian) via phylogenetic, discriminant and machine le	5
The oldest evidence of brooding in a Devonian blastoid reveals the evolution of new reproductive strategies in early echinoderms	5
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	5
Insights into reef evolution: the first sphinctozoan‐dominated reef facies from the lower Katian (Upper Ordovician) of the Tarim Basin, China	5
New aquatic insects from the Miocene of Australia with notes on the ecology and ontogeny of a new species of Chaoborus (Diptera, Chaoboridae)	5
Evolutionarily ancient deep‐water seep communities in the Eocene Tethys: examples from Buje (Croatia)	5
The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat‐Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation	5
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Giant longirostrine crocodylians from the Lower Miocene of Pakistan: new material and taxonomic review	5
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An enigmatic structure in the tail of vetulicolians from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China	4
A new early water frog (Telmatobius) from the Miocene of the Bolivian Altiplano	4
A unique Late Cretaceous fossil wood assemblage from Chilean Patagonia provides clues to a high‐latitude continental environment	4
Trace fossils from the Meishucun section of South China: revisiting ichnotaxonomy, behavioural diversification and ecosystem engineering from a key Ediacaran–Cambrian succession	4

Illuminating the richness of the ascidian fossil record: a new exceptionally diverse assemblage of ascidian spicules from the Middle Miocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
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Shedding light on the enigmatic extinct insect order Glosselytrodea: new diversity and key morphological insights into non‐tegmenized Permian forms	4
A new species of Karkenia (Karkeniaceae, Ginkgoales) from the Lower Jurassic of East Siberia (Russia): palaeobiogeographical and evolutionary implication	4
Lower Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) graptolites of the generaRastritesandStavrites: systematics, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography	4
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Early eukaryotic microfossils of the late Palaeoproterozoic Limbunya Group, Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia	4
A review of the glacial environment arthropod trace fossilsUmfoloziaandWarvichniumwith the description of new ichnotaxa	4
New remains of Titanochelon richardi (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the Upper Miocene of the Vallès‐Penedès Basin: taxonomic and phylogenetic implicatio	4
Elemgasem nubilus: a new brachyrostran abelisaurid (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina	4
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Burrows provided shelter for tetrapods in a Permo‐Triassic desert	4
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