Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2012. Rediscovery of the bizarre Cretaceous ant Haidomyrmex Dlussky (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with two new species. American Museum Novitates 3755:1-16. 10.1206/3755.2 PDF

Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2013. A new genus of highly specialized ants in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3681:405-412. PDF

Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2014. A diverse ant fauna from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 9 (4):e93627. 10.1371/journal.pone.0093627 PDF

Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2016. Adaptive radiation in socially advanced stem-group ants from the Cretaceous. Current Biology 26:515-521. 10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.060 PDF

Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24:1-30. PDF

Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2017. [New genus Linguamyrmex attributed to Barden and Grimaldi ]. Pp. 839-841 in: Barden, P.; Herhold H. W.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2017a. A new genus of hell ants from the Cretaceous (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) with a novel head structure. Systematic Entomology 42:837-846. PDF

Barden, P.; Herhold H. W.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2017a. A new genus of hell ants from the Cretaceous (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) with a novel head structure. Systematic Entomology 42:837-846. 10.1111/syen.12253 PDF

Notes: Published in October 2017 issue. Online early 04 September 2017.

Barden, P.; Boudinot, B. E.; Lucky, A. 2017b. Where fossils dare and males matter: combined morphological and molecular analysis untangles the evolutionary history of the spider ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Dolichoderinae). Invertebrate Systematics 31:765-780. 10.1071/IS16067 PDF

Katzke, J.; Barden, P.; Dehon, M.; Michez, D.; Wappler, T. 2018. Giant ants and their shape: revealing relationships in the genus Titanomyrma with geometric morphometrics. PeerJ 6:36 pp. e4242. 10.7717/peerj.4242 PDF

LaPolla, J. S.; Barden, P. 2018. A new aneuretine ant from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation of Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 (3):435-440. 10.4202/app.00478.2018 PDF

Grimaldi, D. A.; Sunderlin, D.; Aaroe, G. A.; Dempsky, M. R.; Parker, M. E.; Tillery, G. Q.; White, J. G.; Barden, P.; Nascimbene, P. C.; Williams, C. J. 2018. Biological inclusions in amber from the Paleogene Chickaloon Formation of Alaska. American Museum Novitates 3908:1-37. 10.1206/3908.1 PDF

Barden, P.; Engel, M. S. 2019. Fossil Social Insects. Cham: Springer Nature, 1-21. [online early] 10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_45-1 PDF

Perrichot, V.; Wang, B.; Barden, P. 2020. New remarkable hell ants (Formicidae: Haidomyrmecinae stat. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 109 (104381):18 pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104381 PDF

Barden, P.; Perrichot, V.; Wang, B. 2020. Specialized predation drives aberrant morphological integration and diversity in the earliest ants. Current Biology 30:3818-3824. 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.106 PDF

Sosiak, C. E.; Borowiec, M. L.; Barden, P. 2022. An Eocene army ant. Biology Letters 18:20220398 (5 pp.). 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0398 PDF

Fiorentino, G.; Lattke, J.; Troya, A.; Sosiak, C.; Dong, M.; Barden, P. 2023. Deep time extinction of largest insular ant predators and the first fossil Neoponera (Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Miocene age Dominican amber. BMC Biology 21 (26):1-12. 10.1186/s12915-022-01488-9 PDF

Sosiak, C. E.; Borowiec, M. L.; Barden, P. 2023. Retraction: an Eocene army ant. Biology Letters 19: 20230059:2 pp. 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0059 PDF

Sosiak, C. E.; Borowiec, M. L.; Barden, P. 2023. An invited reply to: A comment on: An Eocene army ant (2022) by Sosiak CE et al. Biology Letters 19 (4):20230140: 3 pp. 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0140 PDF

Sawh, I.; Bae, E.; Camilo, L.; Lanan, M.; Lucky, A.; Morais Menezes, H.; Fiorentino, G.; Sosiak, C.; Khadempour, L.; Barden, P. 2023. The first fossil replete ant worker establishes living food storage in the Eocene. Myrmecological News 33:139-147. 10.25849/myrmecol.news_033:139 PDF

Sosiak, C. E.; Cockx, P.; Suarez, P. A.; McKellar, R. C.; Barden, P. 2024. Prolonged faunal turnover in earliest ants revealed by North American Cretaceous amber. Current Biology 34:1755-1761. [online early] 10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.058 PDF

Fiorentino, G.; Probst, R.; Richter, A.; Economo, E. P.; Barden, P. 2025. A fossil-informed pattern of body size increase and local extinction in Basiceros dirt ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292 (2045):20242171 (11 pp.). 10.1098/rspb.2024.2171 PDF

Fiorentino, G.; Sánchez, A.; Barden, P. 2025. A new species of Crematogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) with contrasting coloration unique to the Caribbean. Novitates Caribaea 26:1-10. 10.33800/nc.vi26.374 PDF

Oberski, J. T.; Griebenow, Z. H.; Adams, R. M. M.; Andersen, A.; Andrade-Silva, J.; Barden, P.; Borowiec, M.; Brady, S.; Casadei-Ferreira, A.; Csősz, S.; Dias, A. M.; Dias, R. K. S.; Feitosa, R. M.; Fernandez, F.; Fisher, B. L.; General, D. E. M.; Gomez, K.; Hammel, J. U.; Hawkes, P. G.; Janda, M.; Khalife, A.; Ladino, N.; Lieberman, Z. E.; Lucky, A.; Menchetti, M.; do Prado, L. P.; Prebus, M. M.; Probst, R. S.; Punnath, A.; Richter, A.; Salata, S.; Sánchez-Restrepo, A. F.; Schifani, E.; Schultz, T. R.; Silva, R. R.; Sosa-Calvo, J.; Tocora, M. C.; Ulysséa, M. A.; van de Kamp, T.; Wang, W. Y.; Williams, J. L.; Camacho, G. P.; Boudinot, B. E. 2025. Ant systematics: past, present, and future. Insect Systematics and Diversity 9 (4), 11:ixaf025, 42 pp. 10.1093/isd/ixaf025 PDF