Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous.

D Peris Cerdán, CC Labandeira, E Barrón… - iScience, 2020, num …, 2020 - diposit.ub.edu
The Cretaceous fossil record of amber provides a variety of evidence that is essential for
greater understanding of early pollination strategies. Here, we describe four pieces of ca. 99 …

Generalist pollen-feeding beetles during the mid-Cretaceous

D Peris, CC Labandeira, E Barron, X Delclos, J Rust… - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
The Cretaceous fossil record of amber provides a variety of evidence that is essential for
greater understanding of early pollination strategies. Here, we describe four pieces of ca. 99 …

Pollination of Cretaceous flowers

T Bao, B Wang, J Li, D Dilcher - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Insect pollination of flowering plants (angiosperms) is responsible for the majority of the
world's flowering plant diversity and is key to the Cretaceous radiation of angiosperms …

Angiosperm pollinivory in a Cretaceous beetle

E Tihelka, L Li, Y Fu, Y Su, D Huang, C Cai - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the crucial importance of flower-visiting insects in modern ecosystems, there is little
fossil evidence on the origins of angiosperm pollination. Most reports of pollination in the …

Roach nectarivory, gymnosperm and earliest flower pollination evidence from Cretaceous ambers

H Sendi, J Hinkelman, L Vršanská, T Kúdelová… - Biologia, 2020 - Springer
Direct fossil evidence for Mesozoic flower pollination is scarce. Umenocoleoid micro-
cockroaches Lepidopterix vegrandis gen. et sp. n.(Lebanese amber) and Antophiloblatta …

Direct evidence for eudicot pollen-feeding in a Cretaceous stinging wasp (Angiospermae; Hymenoptera, Aculeata) preserved in Burmese amber

DA Grimaldi, E Peñalver, E Barrón, HW Herhold… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Angiosperms and their insect pollinators form a foundational symbiosis, evidence for which
from the Cretaceous is mostly indirect, based on fossils of insect taxa that today are …

Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy

IC Romero, S Kong, CC Fowlkes… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Taxonomic resolution is a major challenge in palynology, largely limiting the ecological and
evolutionary interpretations possible with deep-time fossil pollen data. We present an …

Syninclusions of two new species of short-winged flower beetle (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar)

D Peris, J Jelínek - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Evidence of behavior is rarely found in fossil record. Here we describe two new species in
Coleoptera tentatively described in Kateretidae based on two syninclusions (co-occurrences …

[HTML][HTML] The core eudicot boom registered in Myanmar amber

ZJ Liu, D Huang, C Cai, X Wang - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
A perfect flower in a mid-Cretaceous (early Cenomanian) Myanmar amber is described as
Lijinganthus revoluta gen. et sp. nov. The fossil flower is actinomorphic and pentamerous …

Unlocking the mystery of the mid‑Cretaceous Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) and modalities in transiting from gymnosperms to angiosperms

D Peris Cerdán, R Kundrata… - … 10, num. 16854, p. 1-9, 2020 - diposit.ub.edu
The monospecific family Mysteriomorphidae was recently described based on two fossil
specimens from the Late Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar. The family was …