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Constanza Peña-Kairath, Xavier Delclòs, Sergio Álvarez-Parra, Enrique Peñalver, Michael S. Engel, Jeff Ollerton & David Peris (2023)

Insect pollination in deep time

Trends in Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.03.008

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534723000629

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Li X, Huang D. 2023. Atypical ‘long-tailed’ cockroaches arose during Cretaceous in response to angiosperm terrestrial revolution. PeerJ 11:e15067 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15067

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Raphaël Zambon, Julien Denayer & Cyrille Prestianni (2023)
Plant-insect interactions in the Selandian (Early Paleocene) Gelinden Fossil Flora (Belgium) and what they mean for the ecosystems after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 111524
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111524
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018223001426

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David P. Groenewald, Jennifer Botha & Roger M.H. Smith (2023)
Fossil millipedes associated with articulated tetrapod skeletons in the Early Triassic Karoo Basin, South Africa
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 617: 111508
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111508
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018223001268

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Fernando Lopes, Michele Rossini, Federica Losacco, Giulio Montanaro, Nicole Gunter & Sergei Tarasov (2023)
Metagenomics reveals that dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) broadly feed on reptile dung. Did they also feed on that of dinosaurs?
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1132729
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1132729
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1132729/full

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Archibald, S., Mathewes, R., & Aase, A. (2023). Eocene giant ants, Arctic intercontinental dispersal, and hyperthermals revisited: Discovery of fossil Titanomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formiciinae) in the cool uplands of British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist, 155, E6. doi:10.4039/tce.2022.49

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Du Xuheng, Niu Kecheng and Bao Tong 2023Giant Jurassic dragon lacewing larvae with lacustrine palaeoecology represent the oldest fossil record of larval neuropteransProc. R. Soc. B.2902022250020222500
http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2500

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Jakub Prokop, André Nel, and Michael S. Engel (2023)
Diversity, Form, and Postembryonic Development of Paleozoic Insects
Annual Review of Entomology 68: 401-429
doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-120220-022637
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-ento-120220-022637

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Sandra R Schachat, Paul Z Goldstein, Rob Desalle, Dean M Bobo, C Kevin Boyce, Jonathan L Payne, Conrad C Labandeira, Illusion of flight? Absence, evidence and the age of winged insects, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022;, blac137, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blac137

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Chunpeng Xu, Bo Wang, Torsten Wappler, Jun Chen, Dmitry Kopylov, Yan Fang, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, Haichun Zhang and Michael S. Engel (2022)
High acoustic diversity and behavioral complexity of katydids in the Mesozoic soundscape
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(51): e2210601119
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2210601119
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210601119

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Jouault, C., Nel, A., Perrichot, V. et al. Multiple drivers and lineage-specific insect extinctions during the Permo–Triassic. Nat Commun 13, 7512 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35284-4

Another #kalligrammatid #wip. This time one of the largest species, Makarkinia irmae, from the Crato Formation of Brazil. Only a fragment of hindwing is know from this species, but indicates an insect with a massive wingspan, potentially up to 30cm across (although I've been more conservative here)!
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Monday morning #kalligrammatid illustration.... this is only the unfinished outline, but I like the way it's looking so far.
This is #Oregramma illecebrosa, a species with a roughly 12cm wingspan and eyespotted wings from the #Yixian Formaton of China.
The kalligrammatids were a family of butterfly-like lacewings from the #Mesozoic which are thought to have been some of the primary pollinators of some #gymnosperms.
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