Early Fossil History of the Termites

By B. L. Thorne, D. Grimaldi, K. Krishna. 2000

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Termite Phylogenetics and Co-cladogenesis with Symbionts (2010, background): “The earliest termite fossils (∼135 million years old) come from a similar epoch (Thorne et al. 2000; Engel et al. 2009), as do those for mantids (Grimaldi 1997).”
Evolution of termite functional diversity: analysis and synthesis of local ecological and regional influences on local species richness (2003, background): “…scenario to explain contemporary patterns of termite functional diversity The very limited termite fossil record dates back to the Cretaceous period (Emerson, 1967; Jarzembowski, 1981), and points to the Upper Jurassic as being the era in which termites first arose (Thorne et al., 2000).”
A Revision of Cretaceous Mantises and Their Relationships, Including New Taxa (Insecta: Dictyoptera: Mantodea) (2003, background): “, Carpenter, 1992), an age more than twice that of the oldest known fossils of termites (Thorne et al., 2000) and mantises (this report) from the Cretaceous.”