Introduction to thematic issue, “Cretaceous insects: Diversity, palaeoecology and taphonomy”

Introduction to thematic volume “Fossil arthropods in Late Cretaceous Vendean amber (northwestern France)”

“…There is growing knowledge of the insect and arachnid Cretaceous diversity worldwide, most notably as a result of the discovery, in the past twenty years, of numerous Konservat-Lagerstätten (highly fossiliferous deposits) that provide a plethora of fossil arthropods (Wang & Szwedo, 2014). Early Cretaceous (Berriasian-Aptian) insects are known primarily from imprints in rocks, while fossiliferous amber yielding arthropod inclusions range mostly from the Albian to the Campanian -the sole exception being Hauterivian-Barremian amber of Lebanon and Jordan.…”