The rapid Cretaceous diversification of flowering plants remains Darwin's 'abominable
mystery'despite numerous fossil flowers discovered in recent years. Wildfires were frequent …

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 …

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 …

The major lineages of winged insects originated in the Carboniferous and most extant
families stemmed 150 Ma later. Until now, no family from the Carboniferous was represented …

The spike mosses (Selaginella P. Beauv.; c. 750 species) are not only the most speciose
extant genus of lycophytes, but also one of the largest land plant genera (Jermy, 1990). In …

Selaginella (Selaginellales, Selaginellaceae) is the most speciose genus of lycophytes and,
with approximately 750 recognized present-day species, also one of the largest genera of …

Derbachile hochae gen. et sp. n., D. aschei sp. n. and Achiderbe obrienae gen. et sp. n. from
mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber described in Derbachilini trib. n. are the first Mesozoic and …

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 …

Morphological insect-insect mimicry is known from few Cretaceous cockroaches and a
beetle. Formicamendax vrsanskyi gen. et sp. n.(Blattaria, Alienopteridae) shows …