The use of the functional feeding group–damage type system for analyzing arthropod and
pathogen interactions with plants has transformed our understanding of herbivory in fossil …

Abstract Changes in pollen and spore assemblages across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–
Pg) boundary elucidate the vegetation response to a global environmental crisis triggered …

Background Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically
diverse group of Hymenoptera, with some species of bees having evolved eusocial …

Understanding the origin and diversification of organisms requires a good phylogenetic
estimate of their age and diversification rates. This estimate can be difficult to obtain when …

Time and again, over hundreds of millions of years, environmental disturbances have
caused mass extinctions of animals ranging from reptiles to corals. The anthropogenic loss …

Progress toward understanding the dynamics of ancient plant-insect associations has
addressed major patterns in the ecology and evolution of herbivory and pollination. This …

Nearly all data regarding land-plant turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary
come from western North America, relatively close to the Chicxulub, Mexico impact site …

Highlights•Fossil plant–insect interactions record herbivory, pollination, mimicry, and
pathogens.•Studies of the expansion and setbacks in fossil herbivory are increasingly …

In this catalog, we attempt to assemble all fossil records of Lepidoptera described formally or
informally in the world literature. A total of 667 records dealing with at least 4,568 specimens …

Insect and mite galls on land plants have a spotty but periodically rich and abundant fossil
record of damage types (DTs), ichnotaxa, and informally described gall morphotypes. The …