Fossil Lepidopterous Leaf Mines Demonstrate the Age of Some Insect-Plant Relationships
- 30 March 1973
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 179 (4080), 1321-1323
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.179.4080.1321
Abstract
The discovery of impressions of 11 kinds of lepidopterous leaf mines, together with a reevaluation of previous reports, contributes significantly to the fossil record for that insect order. It is also concluded that some specific insect-plant associations have persisted from the Miocene to the present.Keywords
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