2022

Research contributions [153]

Álvarez-Armada, N., Cameron, C.B., Bauer, J.E., and Rahman, I.A. 2022. Heterochrony and parallel evolution of echinoderm, hemichordate and cephalochordate internal bars. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289, 20220258. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0258

Álvarez-Carretero, S., Tamuri, A.U., Battini, M., Nascimento, F.F., Carlisle, E., Asher, R.J., Yang, Z.H., Donoghue, P.C.J. and Dos Reis, M. 2022. A species-level timeline of mammal evolution integrating phylogenomic data. Nature 602, 263–267. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04341-1

Bai, R.Y., Song, H.J., Benton, M.J., and Tian, L. 2022. Phylogenetic classification and evolution of Early Triassic conodonts. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 585, 110731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110731

Ballell, A., Rayfield, E.J., and Benton, M.J. 2022. Walking with early dinosaurs: appendicular myology of the Late Triassic sauropodomorph Thecodontosaurus antiquus. Royal Society Open Science 9(1), 211356. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211356

Ballel, A., Benton, M.J., and Rayfield, E.J. 2002. Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs. Science Advances 8, eabq5201. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abq5201

Benton, M.J., Hu, S.X., Zhang, Q.Y., Xie, T., Zhou, C.Y., and Huang, J.Y. 2022. Establishment of the Luoping Biota National Geopark in Yunnan, China. Geoconservation Research 5, 261-284. https://doi.org/10.30486/gcr.2022.1962749.1111

Benton, M.J. and Sennikov, A. G. 2022. The naming of the Permian System. Journal of the Geological Society 179, jgs2021-037. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-037

Benton, M.J., Wilf, P., and Sauquet, H.S. 2022. The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity. New Phytologist 233, 2017–2035. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17822

Benton, M.J. and Wu, F.X 2022. Triassic revolution. Frontiers in Earth Science 10, 899541. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.899541

Bestwick, J., Jones, A.S., Nesbitt, S.J., Lautenschlager, S., Rayfield, E.J., Cuff, A.R., Button, D.J., Barrett, P.M., Porro, L.B., and Butler, R.J. 2022. Cranial functional morphology of the pseudosuchian Effigia and implications for its ecological role in the Triassic. Anatomical Record 305, 2435-2462. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24827

Bolet, A., Stubbs, T.L., Herrera-Flores, J.A., and Benton, M.J. 2022. The Jurassic rise of squamates as supported by lepidosaur disparity and evolutionary rates. eLife 11, e66511. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66511

Cabezuelo Hernández, A., Bolet, A., Torices, A., Pérez-García, A. 2022. Identification of a large anguimorph lizard (Reptilia, Squamata) by an articulated hindlimb from the upper Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Basturs-1 (Lleida, Spain). Cretaceous Research 131,105094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105094

Cai, C.Y., Tihelka, E, Giacomelli, M., Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Kundrata, R., Yamamoto, S., Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F., Leschen, R.A.B., Gimmel, M.L., Lü, L., Engel, M.S., Bouchard, P. Huang, D., Pisani, D. and Donoghue P.C.J. 2022. Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles. Royal Society Open Science 9, 211771.  https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211771

Capel, E., Cleal, C.J., Xue, J.Z., Monnet, C., Servais, T., Cascales-Miñana, B. 2022. The Silurian-Devonian terrestrial revolution: diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record. Earth-Science Reviews 231, 104085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104085

Casanovas-Vilar, I., Garcés, M., Marcuello, Á., Abella, J., Madurell-Malapeira, J., Jovells-Vaqué, S., Cabrera, L., Galindo, J., Beamud, E., Ledo, J.J., Queralt, P., Martí, A., Sanjuan, J., Martín-Closas, C., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Luján, À.H., Villa, A., DeMiguel, D., Sánchez, I.M., Robles, J.M., Furió, M., Van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Sánchez-Marco, A., Sanisidro, Ó., Valenciano, A., García-Paredes, I., Angelone, C., Pons-Monjo, G., Azanza, B., Delfino, M., Bolet, A., Grau-Camats, M., Vizcaíno-Varo, V., Mormeneo, D., Kimura, Y., Moyà-Solà, S., and Alba, D.M. 2022. Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe. Historical Biology 34, 1494-1508 (https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2043296).

Cermeño, P., García-Comas, C., Pohl, A., Williams, S., Benton, M.J., Chaudhary, C., Le Gland, G., Müler, D., Ridgwell, A., and Vallina, S.M. 2022. Post-extinction recovery of the Phanerozoic oceans and biodiversity hotspots. Nature 607, 507–511. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04932-6

Čerňanský, A., Stanley, E., Daza, J., Bolet, A., Arias, J.S., Bauer, A.M., Vidal-García, M., Bevitt, J.J., Peretti, A.M., Aung, N.N., Evans, S.E. 2022. A new Early Cretaceous lizard in Myanmar amber with exceptionally preserved integument. Scientific Reports 12, 1660. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05735-5

Chambi-Trowell, S.A.V., Whiteside, D.I., Skinner, M., Benton, M.J., and Rayfield, E.J. 2022. Phylogenetic relationships of the European trilophosaurids Tricuspisaurus thomasi and Variodens inopinatus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41, e1999250. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02724634.2021.1999250

Cheng, L., Moon, B.C., Yan, C.B., Motani, R., Jiang, D.Y., An, Z.H., Fang, Z.C. 2022. The oldest record of Saurosphargiformes (Diapsida) from South China could fill an ecological gap in the Early Triassic biotic recovery. PeerJ 10, e13569. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13569

Cleal, C.J., Pardoe, H.S., Slade, K., Whyman, S., Tangney, R., and Jüttner, I. 2022. The Welsh National Herbarium. Botany Letters 169, 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2021.1977178

Cross, S.R.R., Moon, B.C., Stubbs, T.L., Rayfield, E.J., and Benton, M.J. 2022. Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity. Palaeontology 65, e12590.  https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12590

Daniels, S.E., Tucker, M.E., Mawson, M.J., Long, J.J., Holdsworth, R.E., Gluyas, J.G. and Jones, R.R. 2022. Nature and origin of collapse breccias in the Zechstein of NE England: local observations with cross-border petroleum exploration and production significance, across the North Sea. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 494, 269-299. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP494-2019-140

Dawson, G.J., Burley, S.D., Ruffell, A., Benton, M.J., and Duffin, C.J. 2022. A new exposure of the North Curry Sandstone Member (Dunscombe Mudstone Formation, Mercia Mudstone Group: Carnian, Triassic), near Taunton, Somerset (UK): The location of Charles Moore’s vertebrate specimens resolved. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 133, 526-537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2022.06.009

Deakin, W.J., Anderson, P.S.L., den Boer, W., Smith, W.J., Hill, J.J., Rücklin, M., Donoghue, P.C.J. and Rayfield, E.J. 2022. Increasing morphological disparity and decreasing optimality for jaw speed and strength during the radiation of jawed vertebrates. Science Advances 8: eabl3644. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl3644

Deveciler, A., Hadi, M., Sarkar, S., and Sharifi, J. 2022. First report of Burdurina selandinica Sirel (Foraminiferida) and the microfacies analysis of middle Paleocene limestones in central Iran. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 30, 518-534. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593822060041

Dong, X.P., Duan, B.C., Liu, J.B., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2022. Internal anatomy of a fossilized embryonic stage of the Cambrian-Ordovician scalidophoran Markuelia. Royal Society Open Science 9, 220115 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220115

Dunn, F.S., Kenchington, C.G., Parry, L.A., Clark, J.W., Kendall, R.S., Wilby, P.R. 2022. A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6, 1095-1104. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01807-x

Elrick, M., Gilleaudeau, G.J., Romaniello, S. J., Algeo, T.J., Morford, J.L., Sabbatino, M. Goepfert, T.J., Cleal, C.J., Cascales-Miñana, B., and Chernyavskiuy, P. 2022. Major Early-Middle Devonian oceanic oxygenation linked to early land plant evolution detected using high-resolution U isotopes of marine limestones. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 581, 117410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117410

Feng, X.Q., Chen, Z.Q., Benton, M.J., Su, C.M., Bottjer, D.J., Cribb, A.T., Li, Z.H., Zhao, L.S., Zhu, G.Y., Huang, Y.G., and Guo, Z. 2022. Resilience of infaunal ecosystems during the Early Triassic greenhouse Earth. Science Advances 8, eabo0597. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0597

Ferrón, H.G. and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2022. Evolutionary analysis of swimming speed in early vertebrates challenges the ‘New Head Hypothesis’. Communications Biology 5, 863. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03730-0

Ferrón, H.G. and Palacios-Abella, J.F. 2022. Grouping behaviour impacts on the parasitic pressure and squamation of sharks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289, 20220093. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0093

Flannery-Sutherland, J.T., Raja, N.B., Kocsis, Á.T., and Kiessling, W. 2022. fossilbrush: An R package for automated detection and resolution of anomalies in palaeontological occurrence data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13, 2404-2418. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13966

Flannery Sutherland, J.T., Silvestro, D., and Benton, M.J. 2022. Global diversity dynamics in the fossil record are regionally heterogeneous. Nature Communications 13, 2751. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30507-0

Gai, Z.K., Li, Q., Ferrón, H.G., Keating, J.N., Wang, J.Q., Donoghue, P.C.J., and Zhu, M. 2022. Galeaspid anatomy and origin of vertebrate paired appendages. Nature 609, 959-963. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04897-6

Gai, Z.K., Zhu, M., Ahlberg, P.E., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2022. The evolution of the spiracular region from jawless fishes to tetrapods. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 887172. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.887172

Garcia-Artigas, R., Mercedes-Martín, R., Cartanyà, J., Bolet, A., Riccetto, M., and Fortuny, J. 2022. Faunal composition and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a Middle-Late Triassic boundary assemblage in the Pyrenean basin (Catalonia, NE Spain). Journal of Paleontology 96, 412-427. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.99

Giacomelli, M., Rossi, M.E., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Feuda, R., and Pisani, D. 2022. Resolving tricky nodes in the tree of life through amino acid recoding. iScience 25(12), 105594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105594

Gorochov, A.V. and Coram, R.A. 2022. New and little known taxa of the suborder Ensifera (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England. Cretaceous Research 134, 105164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105164

Griffin, B., Martin-Silverstone, E., Demuth, O., Pêgas, R., Palmer, C., and Rayfield, E.J. 2022. Constraining pterosaur launch: range of motion in the pectoral and pelvic girdles of a medium-sized ornithocheiraean pterosaur. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 137, 250–266. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blac063

Grigoratou, M., Monteiro, F.M., Wilson, J.D., Ridgwell, A., and Schmidt, D.N. 2022. Exploring the impact of climate change on the global distribution of non-spinose planktonic foraminifera using a trait-based ecosystem model. Global Change Biology 28, 1063-1076. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15964

Guo, J., Parry, L.A., Vinther, J., Edgecombe, G.D., Wei, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, Y., Béthoux, O., Lei, X.T., Chen, T., and Cong, P. 2022. A Cambrian tommotiid preserving soft tissues reveals the metameric ancestry of lophophorates. Current Biology 32, 4769-4778.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.011

Gutarra, S. and Rahman, I. 2022. The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods. Biological Reviews 97, 67-98 https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12790

Gutarra, S., Stubbs, T.L., Moon, B.C., Palmer, C., and Benton, M.J. 2022. Large size in aquatic tetrapods compensates for high drag caused by extreme body proportions. Communications Biology 5, 380. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03322-y

Han, Z.Z., Li, D., Zhao, Y.Y., Wang, J.J., Guo, N., Yan, H.X., Han, C., Li, Q., and Tucker, M.E. 2022. Mineralogy of bioprecipitate evolution over induction times mediated by halophilic bacteria under various Mg/Ca molar ratios. ACS Omega 7,  29755-29772. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c02443

Han, Z.Z., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Gao, X., and Tucker, M.E. 2022. Amorphous and crystalline carbonate biomineralization in cyanobacterial biofilms induced by Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 cultured in CaCl₂–MgCl₂–SrCl₂ mediums. Geomicrobiology Journal 39, 767-780 https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2022.2074576

Happ, J., Elsler, A., Kriwet, J., Pfaff, C., and Bochenski, Z.M. 2022. Two passeriform birds (Aves: Passeriformes) from the Middle Miocene of Austria. PalZ 96, 313–321. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-021-00579-2

Harris, B.J., Clark, J.W., Schrempf, D., Szöllösi, G.J., Donoghue, P.C.J., Hetherington, A.M., and Williams, T.A. 2022. Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6, 1634-1643 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01885-x

Herraiz, J.L., Carrillo-Briceño, J.D., Ferrón, H.G., Adnet, S., Botella, H., Martínez-Pérez, C. 2022. First fossil record (Middle Miocene) of the viper shark Trigonognathus Mochizuki and Ohe, 1990, in the Mediterranean realm. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(1), e2114360. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2022.2114360

Herrera-Flores, J.A., Elsler, A., Stubbs, T.L., and Benton, M.J. 2022. Slow and fast evolutionary rates in the history of lepidosaurs. Palaeontology 65, e12579. https://10.1111/pala.12579

Herrera-Flores, J.A., Stubbs, T.L., and Sour-Tovar, F. 2022.Redescription of the type specimens for the Late Jurassic rhynchocephalian Opisthias rarus and a new specimen of Theretairus antiquus from Quarry 9, Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00929.2021

Hoppit, G. and Schmidt, D.N. 2022. A regional view of the response to climate change: a meta-analysis of European benthic organisms’ responses. Frontiers in Marine Science 9, 896157. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.896157

Howard, R.J., Giacomelli, M., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Edgecombe, G.E., Fleming, J.F., Kristensen, R.M., Ma, X., Olesen, J., Sørensen, M.V., Thomsen, P.F., Wills, M.A., Donoghue, P.C.J., and Pisani, D. 2022. The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: integrating fossil and phylogenomic data. Journal of the Geological Society 179, jgs2021-107. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-107

Howson, M.P., Tucker, M.E., and Whitaker, F.F. 2022. Rare preservation of Triassic pedorelicts with biogenic traces from a hot semi-arid upland palaeoenvironment at Portishead, SW England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 133, 572-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2022.07.003

Hu, S.X., Feldmann, R.M., Schweitzer, C.E., Benton, M.J., Huang, J.Y., Wen, W., Min, X., Zhang, Q.Y., Zhou, C.Y., and Ma, Z.X. 2022. A new horseshoe crab from the Permian-Triassic transition of South China: Xiphosurids as key components of post-extinction trophic webs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 602, 111178. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018222003480

Jamison-Todd, S., Moon, B.C., Rowe, A.J., Williams, M., and Benton., M.J. 2022. Dietary niche partitioning in Early Jurassic ichthyosaurs from Strawberry Bank. Journal of Anatomy 241, 1409-1423 https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13744

Jamson, K.M., Moon, B.C. and Fraass, A.J. 2022. Diversity dynamics of microfossils from the Cretaceous to the Neogene show mixed responses to events. Palaeontology 65, e12615. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12615

Jobbins, M., Rücklin, M., Ferrón, H.G., and Klug, C. 2022. A new selenosteid placoderm from the Late Devonian of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) with preserved body outline and its ecomorphology. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 969158. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.969158

Jones, B., Martín-Serra, A., Rayfield, E.J., and Janis, C.M. 2022. Distal humeral morphology indicates locomotory divergence in extinct giant kangaroos. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 29, 27–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-021-09576-3

Junium, C.K., Zerkle, A.L., Witts, J.D., Ivany, L.C., Yancey, T.E., Liu, C., Clare, M.W. 2022. Massive perturbations to atmospheric sulfur in the aftermath of the Chicxulub impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science U.S.A. 119, e2119194119. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2119194119

Karaderi, T., Burghardt, T., Hsiang, A.Y., Ramaer, J., and Schmidt, D.N. 2022. Visual microfossil identification via deep metric learning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13363 LNCS, pp. 34-46. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09037-0_4

Kenigsberg, C., Titelboim, D., Ashckenazi-Polivoda, S., Herut, B., Kucera, M, Zukerman, Y., Hyams-Kaphzan, O., Almogi-Labin, A., Abramovich, S. 2022. The combined effects of rising temperature and salinity may halt the future proliferation of symbiont-bearing foraminifera as ecosystem engineers. Science of the Total Environment 806, 150581. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150581

Lee, S.B., Nam, G.S., and Li, Y.D. 2022. A new species of Notocupes (Coleoptera: Archostemata) from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Jinju Formation in South Korea. Cretaceous Research 140, 105357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105357

Li, D., Zhao, H., Li, G.J., Yan, H.X., Han, Z.Z., Chi, X.Q., Meng, L., Wang, J.H., Xu, Y.D., and Tucker, M.E. 2022. Calcium ion biorecovery from industrial wastewater by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens DMS6. Chemosphere 298, 134328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134328

Li, Y.D., Bi, G., Kundrata, R., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. Nothotytthonyx, a new genus of Malthininae (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. ZooKeys 1092, 19-30. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1092.81701

Li, Y.D., Hsiao, Y., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.-Y. 2022. New species of Vetuprostomis from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Prostomidae). Zootaxa 5125(5), 563-574. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5125.5.6

Li, Y.D., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. Pseudomataeopsephus, a new genus of water penny beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Psephenidae). Cretaceous Research 130, 105055. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105055

Li, Y.D., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. Minute clubbed beetles with cephalic horns in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Monotomidae). Zoological Systematics 47, 155-164 https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.2022206

Li, Y.D., Kundrata, R., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.-Y. 2022. First Artematopodidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Zootaxa 5129, 257-271 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5129.2.6

Li, Y.D., Kundrata, R., Qu, T.Q., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. A new species of Vetubrachypsectra from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Brachypsectridae). Insects 13(2), 122. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13020122

Li, Y.D., Leschen, R.A.B., Liu, Z.H., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. An enigmatic beetle with affinity to Lamingtoniidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 972343. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.972343

Li, Y.D., Newton, A.F., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. The first fossil of Nossidiinae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 911512. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.911512

Li, Y.D., Peris, D., Yamamoto, S., Hsiao, Y., Newton, A.F., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. Revisiting the Raractocetus fossils from Mesozoic and Cenozoic amber deposits (Coleoptera: Lymexylidae). Insects 13(9), 768. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13090768

Li, Y.D., Ruta, R., Tihelka, E., Liu, Z., Huang, D. and Cai, C.Y. 2022. A new marsh beetle from mid‑Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Scientific Reports 12, 13403.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16822-y

Li, Y.D., Tihelka, E., Marshall, C. J., Maddison, D. R., Bai, M., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. Mesoceratocanthus fossils from the Early Cretaceous of China reinterpreted as the earliest passaloids (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Ameghiniana 59, 201-209.  https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.26.04.2022.3502

Li, Y.D., Yu, Y.L., Jäch, M.A., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. Anomocephalobus, a new genus of minute marsh-loving beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Limnichidae). Zoologia 39, e21030 https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.V39.E21030

Li, Y.D., Zhang, Y.B., Szawaryn, K., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2022. Earliest fossil record of Corylophidae from Burmese amber and phylogeny of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 80, 411-422. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.80.e81736

Liu, Y.C., Tihelka, E., Cai, C.Y., and Tian, L. 2022. The oldest fossil record of Pseudopsinae from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of northeastern China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pseudopsinae). Scientific Reports 12(1), 4625. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08450-3

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