British fossil insects

Paleontology of leaf beetles

“…The newly represented subfamilies are the Donaciinae, Criocerinae, and the Hispinae. The in creased number of taxa as geologic time approaches the present parallels that of many insect groups and comes as no surprise Cockerell, 1925;Scudder, 1887. Most of the extant subfamilies of chrysomelids were represented in the Eocene 58-37 mya. Furthermore, according to Larsson 1978, many genera are repre…”

Insects from the Upper Miocene Grubstake Formation of Alaska

“…Extant Dolichoderus and Tapinoma extend at best to the southernmost border of Canada. Dolichoderus appears to have been widespread in the geological record, having been reported from the Miocene of Idaho (Lewis et al, 1990a), Washington state (Lewis et al, 1990b), Dominican Republic (Wilson, 1985), and China (Zhang, 1989;Zhang et al, 1994), from the Oligocene of Colorado (Carpenter, 1930), France (Théobald, 1937a, b), England (Cockerell, 1915), and in Eocene Baltic amber (Wheeler, 1914). Tapinoma does not have such an extensive fossil record, and is recorded only in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Wilson, 1985) and Sicily (Kohring and Schlü ter, 1989), as compressions from the Miocene of China (Zhang, 1989), and in Eocene amber from Rovno, Ukraine (http://edna.…”

Taphonomy of the insects from the Insect Bed (Bembridge Marls), late Eocene, Isle of Wight, England

“…Insects were first reported from the Bembridge Marls over a century ago (A' Court Smith, 1874), and c. 220 species have since been described (Butler, 1889;Brodie, 1878Brodie, , 1894aCockerell, 1915Cockerell, -1922Jarzembowski, 1980). However, no taphonomic study has been conducted.…”