Insects possess a surprisingly extensive fossil record. Compilation of the geochronologic
ranges of insect families demonstrates that their diversity exceeds that of preserved vertebrate …

One of the most intensively examined and abundantly documented structures in the animal
world is insect mouthparts. Major structural types of extant insect mouthparts are extensive, …

▪ Abstract Although research on modern plant-arthropod associations is one of the cornerstones
of biodiversity studies, very little of that interest has percolated down to the fossil record. …

The fossil record of plant-insect associations traditionally has been investigated using
informally described, distinctive types of insect-mediated damage, some of which have been …

From well preserved leaf damage of the mid-Cretaceous Dakota Flora (97 million years ago),
three distinctive, insect-mediated feeding traces have been identified and assigned to two …

The end-Cretaceous event was catastrophic for terrestrial communities worldwide, yet its
long-lasting effect on tropical forests remains largely unknown. We quantified plant extinction …

The head and mouthpart structures of 11 species of Eurasian scorpionflies represent three
extinct and closely related families during a 62-million-year interval from the late Middle …

Evidence for a major extinction of insect herbivores is provided by presence–absence data
for 51 plant–insect associations on 13,441 fossil plant specimens, spanning the Cretaceous/…

… We thus favor an MAT estimate of ≥28 C, which is consistent with oxygen isotopic … tests
(28 C at 58.5 Ma, 29.5 C at 56.6 Ma) (32), and the MAT estimate of 32–33 C derived from the …

The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 55.8 Ma), an abrupt global warming event
linked to a transient increase in pCO 2 , was comparable in rate and magnitude to modern …