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 …

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 …

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 …

Direct fossil evidence for Mesozoic flower pollination is scarce. Umenocoleoid micro-
cockroaches Lepidopterix vegrandis gen. et sp. n.(Lebanese amber) and Antophiloblatta …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Setting the molecular clock to newly described 100-million-year-old flowering shoots of
Phylica in Burmese amber enabled us to recalibrate the phylogenetic history of …

Background Amber has been reported from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, as
isolated clasts or within plant tissues. Undescribed cones of uncertain gymnosperm affinity …

The bee fossil record is fragmentary, making it difficult to accurately estimate the antiquity of
bee-mediated pollination. Here, we describe a bee fossil [Melittosphex burmensis (new …