OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Papers in Palaeontology is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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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	19
Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria)	18
Temnodontosaurus bromalites from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: hunting, digestive taphonomy and prey preferences in a macropredatory ichthyosaur	18
Cambelodon torreensis, a new pinheirodontid multituberculate from the Upper Jurassic of western Portugal	18
Evidence of negative carbon isotope excursions and intense wildfire activity in Upper Triassic coal deposits from Junggar Basin, NW China	18
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Two almost‐forgotten Trypanites ichnospecies names for the most common Palaeozoic macroboring	14
A gigantic new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from Middle Miocene tropical environments of La Venta in northern South America	13
Overview of Psocodea in Eocene Oise amber and implications for the transition to modern‐day barklice communities	12
Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina	12
Pleurotomariida (Gastropoda) from the upper Anisian platform carbonates of the Dolomites (Southern Alps, Italy): systematics, palaeobiogeography and Triassic recovery	12
A new chelid turtle (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina	12
A possible archaic precursor of the octocoral structural plan from the Ordovician of Estonia	12
Evaluating growth in Macrospondylus bollensis (Crocodylomorpha, Teleosauroidea) in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany	11
Reproductive organs and fronds of Umkomasiales (Mesozoic seed ferns) from Cañadón Largo Formation (Middle–Upper Triassic), Patagonia, Argentina	11
Comment on: Omnidens appendages and the origin of radiodont mouthparts	11
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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	10
Systematics, ontogeny and palaeobiogeography of the genus Orthacanthus (Diplodoselachidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lower Permian of France	10
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Diving into the past: a new assemblage of Neogene elasmobranch microfossils from the eastern Pacific of South America	10
A new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil: insights into the last representatives of the family	10
Ostracod fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Cangxi Formation of the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China: taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography	10
Astogenetic morphological variation in the bryozoan Prophyllodictya gracilis from the Middle Ordovician of Russia and inferred colony‐wide feeding currents	9
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The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: a new mid‐sized pareiasaur Yinshanosaurus angustus and its implications for the phy	9
Early detritivory and sedimentivory in insects based on in situ gut contents from Triassic aquatic nymphs	9
The Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from the southern Qilian Mountains, north‐western China	9
Rostral and body shape analyses reveal cryptic diversity of Late Jurassic batomorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Europe	8
Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, North Slope of Alaska, and their palaeobiogeographical significance	8
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Fossilized soft tissues in Palaeozoic bryozoans	8
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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Feeding strategies of the Pleistocene insular dwarf elephants Palaeoloxodon falconeri and Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis	7
A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest N	7
The early Cambrian Bushizheia yangi and head segmentation in upper stem‐group euarthropods	7
Phylogenetic patterns in fossil and living billfishes (Istiophoriformes, Istiophoridae): evidence from the Central Mediterranean	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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A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem‐gnathostomes)	7
Cryptic moulting behaviour of some Carboniferous Ostracoda	6
Fossil ground sloth footprints: ichnotaxonomy and producers	6
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Radiolarian response to environmental changes at the Sinemurian–Pliensbachian transition in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria	6
Palaeoscolecids from the early Cambrian Guanshan biota, Yunnan Province, China	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
Diversity of limb long bone morphology among proboscideans: how to be the biggest one in the family	6
Late Ordovician and early Silurian virgianid and stricklandioid brachiopods from North Greenland: implications for a warm‐water faunal province	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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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
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The oldest evidence of brooding in a Devonian blastoid reveals the evolution of new reproductive strategies in early echinoderms	5
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Revisiting Oligocene Mimosa and Mimosites leaflets from southwest Europe: taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and	5
Burrows provided shelter for tetrapods in a Permo‐Triassic desert	5
Insights into reef evolution: the first sphinctozoan‐dominated reef facies from the lower Katian (Upper Ordovician) of the Tarim Basin, China	5
Exceptionally preserved eggs show philopatric resilience of phasianids to environmental fragmentation during the Middle–Late Miocene transition in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula	5
Allometry in Late Devonian Podocopa ostracods (Crustacea) and its implications for ostracod ontogeny	5
Advanced crown‐group Rossellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida) resembling extant taxa from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota	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
Giant longirostrine crocodylians from the Lower Miocene of Pakistan: new material and taxonomic review	5
Evolutionarily ancient deep‐water seep communities in the Eocene Tethys: examples from Buje (Croatia)	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