Figure 4: Associations of higher Agaricomycetes and specialized oxyporine Staphylinidae.
From: Mycophagous rove beetles highlight diverse mushrooms in the Cretaceous
Framework for Basidiomycota (red part) based on Taylor and Berbee31, Floudas et al.36 and Hibbett et al.37 1: Oldest basidiomycete clamp connections from late Visean (Mississippian, ∼330 Myr) of France38; 2: oldest Boletales (Ectomycorrhizae) from middle Eocene (∼50 Myr) Princeton chert of British Columbia39; 3: modern-appearing mushrooms from Miocene (∼20 Myr) Dominican amber3, 4, 5; 4: mushrooms from the Late Cretaceous (∼90 Myr) New Jersey amber1,3; 5: diverse mushrooms from mid-Cretaceous (∼99 Myr) Burmese amber; 6: diverse obligately mycophagous Oxyporinae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber; 7: diverse Oxyporinae from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation (∼125 Myr) of China1; 8: oldest known Staphylinidae from the Middle Jurassic (Aalenian−Bathonian) of Kubekovo, Russia40. Squares, compression fossils. Circles, amber inclusions.
