Study on the Jehol Biota: recent advances and future prospects

X Xu, Z Zhou, Y Wang, M Wang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Jehol Biota is an Early Cretaceous terrestrial fossil assemblage of paramount
significance, and its core distribution areas are western Liaoning, northern Hebei, and …

Behaviors and interactions of insects in mid-Mesozoic ecosystems of northeastern China

T Gao, C Shih, D Ren - Annual Review of Entomology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
During the past 20 years, more than 1,600 species of well-preserved fossil insects, including
members of over 270 families within 24 orders, have been described from the Middle …

The vertebrates of the Jurassic Daohugou Biota of northeastern China

C Sullivan, Y Wang, DWE Hone, Y Wang… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China has become famous
over the last two decades as a source of feathered avialan and non-avialan theropods …

If dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) arose in association with dinosaurs, did they also suffer a mass co-extinction at the K-Pg boundary?

NL Gunter, TA Weir, A Slipinksi, L Bocak… - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The evolutionary success of beetles and numerous other terrestrial insects is generally
attributed to co-radiation with flowering plants but most studies have focused on herbivorous …

[LIBRO][B] Evolution of fossil ecosystems

P Selden, J Nudds - 2012 - books.google.com
The first edition of Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems was widely praised for its coverage and
approach in describing and illustrating 14 well-known fossil sites from around the world. The …

The history of insect parasitism and the Mid-Mesozoic Parasitoid Revolution

CC Labandeira, L Li - The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism …, 2021 - Springer
Insect parasites and parasitoids are a major component of terrestrial food webs. For
parasitoids, categorization is whether feeding activity is located inside or outside its host, if …

An updated review of the Middle‐Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota: Chronology, taphonomy, paleontology and paleoecology

X Xu, Z Zhou, C Sullivan, Y Wang… - Acta Geologica Sinica …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The northeastern Chinese Yanliao Biota (sometimes called the Daohugou Biota)
comprises numerous, frequently spectacular fossils of non‐marine organisms, occurring in …

A remarkable new family of Jurassic insects (Neuroptera) with primitive wing venation and its phylogenetic position in Neuropterida

Q Yang, VN Makarkin, SL Winterton, AV Khramov… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Lacewings (insect order Neuroptera), known in the fossil record since the Early
Permian, were most diverse in the Mesozoic. A dramatic variety of forms ranged in that time …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] New specimens of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China

R Pei, Q Li, Q Meng, MA Norell, KQ Gao - Bulletin of the American Museum …, 2017 - BioOne
Four new specimens of Anchiornis huxleyi (PKUP V1068, BMNHC PH804, BMNHC PH822,
and BMNHC PH823) were recently recovered from the Late Jurassic fossil beds of the …