“…However, some of the age estimates found in MCK15 are in conflict with current knowledge of the beetle fossil record (e.g. Nikolajev & Ren, ; Pan et al , , Prokin & Ren, ; Fikáček et al , 2012a; Wang et al , , ; Cai et al , , ; Kirejtshuk et al , ; Boucher et al , ) and with other recently published molecular age estimates for some major beetle clades (e.g. Zhang & Zhou, ; Ahrens et al , ; Bloom et al , ; Kergoat et al , ; Kim & Farrell, ; Bocák et al , ; Gunter et al , ).…”