Rolf Walter Mathewes

Rolf Walter Mathewes, Canadian paleoecologist.

Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada

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• 5 taxon names authored by Rolf Walter Mathewes

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• Archibald, S.B., Johnson, K.R., Mathewes, R.W. & Greenwood, D.R. 2011. Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 278(1725): 3679–3686. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0729 Reference page. 

• Archibald, S.B., Kehlmaier, C. & Mathewes, R.W. 2014: Early Eocene big headed flies (Diptera: Pipunculidae) from the Okanagan Highlands, western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 146(4): 429–443. DOI: 10.4039/tce.2013.79 Reference page. 

• Archibald, S.B., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Brothers, D.J., & Mathewes, R.W. (2018). Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 150(2): 205–257. doi:10.4039/tce.2017.59. ISSN 0008-347X. 

• Archibald, S.B., Cannings, R.A., Erickson, R.J., Bybee, S.M. & Mathewes, R.W. 2021. The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America. Zootaxa 4934(1): 1–133. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4934.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Makarkin, V.N., Archibald, S.B. & Mathewes, R.W. 2021. New Protosmylinae (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) from the early Eocene of western North America, with taxonomic remarks. Zootaxa 4980(1): 142–156. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.1.9 Reference page. 

• Archibald, S.B., Gu, J-J. & Mathewes, R.W. 2022. The Palaeorehniidae (Orthoptera, Ensifera, “Zeuneropterinae”), and new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America. Zootaxa 5100(4): 559–572. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5100.4.6 Reference page. 

• Archibald, S.B., Mathewes, R.W. & Aase, A. 2023. Eocene giant ants, Arctic intercontinental dispersal, and hyperthermals revisited: discovery of fossil Titanomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formiciinae) in the cool uplands of British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist 155, e6, 1–11 DOI: 10.4039/tce.2022.49 . Reference page. 

• Archibald, S.B, Evans, J.E., Mathewes R.W. & Cannings, R.A. (2025) The early Eocene Swauka ypresiana n. gen. n. sp., the oldest gossamerwing damselfly (Odonata, Epallagidae, Epallaginae) and first fossil insect described from the Swauk Formation of central Washington, U.S.A.. Journal of Paleontology 98(6): 1048–1052. doi:10.1017/jpa.2024.60.