Fossil calibrations for the arthropod Tree of Life

JM Wolfe, AC Daley, DA Legg, GD Edgecombe - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

Changes to the fossil record of insects through fifteen years of discovery

DB Nicholson, PJ Mayhew, AJ Ross - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The first and last occurrences of hexapod families in the fossil record are compiled from
publications up to end-2009. The major features of these data are compared with those of …

The first Triassic dipteran (Insecta) from South America, with review of Hennigmatidae

MB Lara, E Lukashevich - 2013 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The first Triassic dipteran from South America is described based on an isolated wing from
the lower Upper Triassic deposits of Argentina (Mendoza Province, Potrerillos Formation …

Leehermania prorova, the earliest staphyliniform beetle, from the Late Triassic of Virginia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

S Chatzimanolis, DA Grimaldi, MS Engel… - American Museum …, 2012 - BioOne
The Staphylinidae contain over 57,000 described species, thus comprising one of the
largest families in all Insecta. Leehermania prorova Chatzimanolis, Grimaldi, and Engel …

Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of an Upper Triassic deposit in southwestern Gondwana (Argentina) based on an insect fauna, plant assemblage, and their …

MB Lara, B Cariglino, AM Zavattieri - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a multidisciplinary study of the Potrerillos Formation at the Quebrada del
Durazno locality, Cuyana Basin, central-western Argentina, providing novel information on …

Endophytic oviposition on leaves from the Late Triassic of northern Chile: ichnotaxonomic, palaeobiogeographic and palaeoenvironment considerations

SC Gnaedinger, K Adami-Rodrigues, OF Gallego - Geobios, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper reports the first record of Triassic insect oviposition scars from southern South
America. Oviposition scars are found on Late Triassic leaves and leaf fragments from …

Evidence of insect leaf mining on Late Triassic (Carnian) gymnosperms from Argentina

B Cariglino, R Prevec, MB Lara, AM Zavattieri - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2022 - Elsevier
We describe two ichnotaxa—Cuniculonomus parallelus Givulescu emend. Robledo et al.
and Foliomacula diffussus ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov.—of insect leaf mines from the Late …

Potrerilloxyela menendezi gen. et sp. nov. from the Late Triassic of Argentina: The oldest representative of Xyelidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) for Americas

MB Lara, AP Rasnitsyn, AM Zavattieri - Paleontological Journal, 2014 - Springer
Potrerilloxyela menendezi gen. et sp. nov. from the Potrerillos Formation, Cuyo Basin, early
Upper Triassic, Mendoza Province, Argentina is described. It is included in the living family …

New hemipteran insects (Eoscarterellidae, Scytinopteridae, and Protopsyllidiidae) from the Upper Triassic Potrerillos Formation of Mendoza, Argentina

MB Lara, B Wang - Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 2016 - Springer
Abstract New species of Eoscarterellidae, Scytinopteridae, and Protopsyllidiidae are
described from the Upper Triassic Potrerillos Formation, Cuyana Basin, Mendoza Province …

A new bizarre cicadomorph family in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hemiptera, Clypeata)

J Chen, J Szwedo, B Wang, Y Zheng, H Jiang… - Cretaceous …, 2019 - Elsevier
As the most diversified organismal group, insects evolved countless structural innovations,
and some unique ones have vanished in their geological history. We herein report a new …