Figure 4. Associations of higher Agaricomycetes and specialized oxyporine Staphylinidae.

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.