Mysterious Insect Fossil Gap Explained
A lack of diverse, winged hexapods—
not low oxygen levels—
could explain the gap in the fossil record
By Lucas Joel, Smithsonian Magazine, May 1, 2018
Open access papers that mentions the hexapod gap ar:
Engel, M.S., 2015. Insect evolution. Current Biology, 25(19), pp.R868-R872
Schachat, S.R., Labandeira, C.C., Saltzman, M.R., Cramer,
B.D., Payne, J.L. and Boyce, C.K., 2018. Phanerozoic p O2
and the early evolution of terrestrial animals. Proceedings
of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1871), no. 20172631.
Yours,
Paul H.