The fossil record and macroevolutionary history of the beetles

Is the Carboniferous a€ Adiphlebia lacoana really the "oldest beetle"? Critical reassessment and description of a new Permian beetle family

(2014) Jarmila KUKALOVA-PECK et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Phylogenetic Distribution of Extant Richness Suggests Metamorphosis Is a Key Innovation Driving Diversification in Insects

(2014) James L. Rainford et al.   PLoS One

Fossil evidence for key innovations in the evolution of insect diversity

(2014) D. B. Nicholson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular and Fossil Evidence on the Origin of Angiosperms

(2012) James A. Doyle   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Age constraint on Burmese amber based on U–Pb dating of zircons

(2012) Guanghai Shi et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

New fossil evidence of the early diversification of scarabs: Alloioscarabaeus cheni (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China

(2012) Ming Bai et al.   Insect Science

Septiventeridae, a new and ancestral fossil family of Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation

(2012) Ming Bai et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION OF INSECTS IN LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENTS

(2012) D. M. SMITH   PALAIOS

Cretaceous/Paleogene Floral Turnover in Patagonia: Drop in Diversity, Low Extinction, and a Classopollis Spike

(2012) Viviana D. Barreda et al.   PLoS One

Direct and indirect effects of biological factors on extinction risk in fossil bivalves

(2011) P. G. Harnik   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Family-Group Names In Coleoptera (Insecta)

(2011) Patrice Bouchard et al.   ZooKeys

Testing the effect of the rock record on diversity: a multidisciplinary approach to elucidating the generic richness of sauropodomorph dinosaurs through time

(2010) Philip D. Mannion et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

On the systematic position and taxonomic rank of the extinct myxophagan †Haplochelus (Coleoptera)

(2010) Si-Qin Ge et al.   INSECT SYSTEMATICS & EVOLUTION

Geographical, environmental and intrinsic biotic controls on Phanerozoic marine diversification

(2010) JOHN ALROY   PALAEONTOLOGY

Many hexapod groups originated earlier and withstood extinction events better than previously realized: inferences from supertrees

(2010) R. B. Davis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the 'common cause' hypothesis in the terrestrial realm

(2010) R. J. Butler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The earliest beetle identified

(2009) Olivier Béthoux   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Diversity curves revisited

(2009) A. G. Ponomarenko et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Temporal lags and overlap in the diversification of weevils and flowering plants

(2009) D. D. McKenna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A macroevolutionary perspective on species range limits

(2009) K. Roy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

No post-Cretaceous ecosystem depression in European forests? Rich insect-feeding damage on diverse middle Palaeocene plants, Menat, France

(2009) T. Wappler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic Conservatism of Extinctions in Marine Bivalves

(2009) K. Roy et al.   SCIENCE

On the head morphology of Tetraphalerus, the phylogeny of Archostemata and the basal branching events in Coleoptera

(2008) Rolf G. Beutel et al.   CLADISTICS

BIOTIC INTERACTIONS AND MACROEVOLUTION: EXTENSIONS AND MISMATCHES ACROSS SCALES AND LEVELS

(2008) David Jablonski   EVOLUTION