Liquidambar (Altingiaceae) and associated insect herbivory from the Miocene of southeastern China

Jia, Dong; Sun, Bainian; Mao, Teng; Yan, Daojiang; Liu, Chunhui; Wang, Zixi; Jin, Peihong

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.001

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“…Such assemblages include the fossil leaves of Parrotia from Berga and Bernasso documented by Adroit et al [26]. Further, the method of identification of DTs in the leaf fossil record [76] has now been used for more than 10 years in numerous studies throughout the world and through all geological time periods [18,21,24,25,[90][91][92], and none mentioned feeding traces equivalent to DT297. Hence, DT297 can be considered a highly specialized term of skeletonization with a host specificity index of 3 (HS = 3).…”

Section: Dt297: a New Classification For This Specialist Insect Damage Tracementioning

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A case of long-term herbivory: specialized feeding trace on Parrotia (Hamamelidaceae) plant species

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Interactions between plants and insects evolved during millions of years of coevolution and maintain the trophic balance of terrestrial ecosystems. Documenting insect damage types (DT) on fossil leaves is essential for understanding the evolution of plant–insect interactions and for understanding the effects of major environmental changes on ecosystem structure. However, research focusing on palaeoherbivory is still sparse and only a tiny fraction of fossil leaf collections have been analysed. This study documents a type of insect damage found exclusively on the leaves of Parrotia species (Hamamelidaceae). This DT was identified on Parrotia leaves from Willershausen (Germany, Pliocene) and from Shanwang (China, Miocene) and on their respective endemic modern relatives: Parrotia perisca in the Hyrcanian forests (Iran) and Parrotia subaequalis in the Yixing forest (China). Our study demonstrates that this insect DT persisted over at least 15 Myr spanning eastern Asia to western Europe. Against expectations, more examples of this type of herbivory were identified on the fossil leaves than on the modern examples. This mismatch may suggest a decline of this specialized plant–insect interaction owing to the contraction of Parrotia populations in Eurasia during the late Cenozoic. However, the continuous presence of this DT demonstrates a robust and long-term plant–herbivore association, and provides new evidence for a shared biogeographic history of the two host plants.

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Section: Dt297: a New Classification For This Specialist Insect Damage Tracementioning

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A case of long-term herbivory: specialized feeding trace on Parrotia (Hamamelidaceae) plant species

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“…Various angiosperm families have been identified based on leaves and fruits found from a layer of light brown diatomite and an underlying layer of blue‐grey mudstone, such as Fagaceae (Wang, 2018), Leguminosae (Lin, Wong, Shi, Shen, & Li, 2015), Dipterocarpaceae (Shi, Jacques, & Li, 2014), Euphorbiaceae (Jacques, Shi, Su, & Zhou, 2015; Wang et al, 2017a), Clusiaceae (Wang et al, 2019, 2018), Lauraceae (Wang et al, 2017b), Rhamnaceae (Dong, Sun, Mao, Jin, & Wang, 2018), and Altingiaceae (Dong et al, 2018). The majority of the extant members of these families grow today in pantropical regions, some of them extend to the temperate zone (Dong, Sun, Mao, Yan, et al, 2018).…”

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The diversity ofSmilax(Smilacaceae) leaves from the Middle Miocene in southeastern China

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Geological Journal

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The Fotan flora represents a tropical rainforest biome and is known by its abundance of fossil plant remains, which mainly include leaves and fruits. In this article, we describe three Smilax (Smilacaceae) fossil taxa, S. fujianensis sp. nov., S. zhangpuensis sp. nov., and Smilax sp., from the Middle Miocene of Fujian Province, in southeastern China. Three morphotypes were examined for their gross morphological characteristics and cuticular structures, with especial reference to the venation patterns and stomata complexes. These new Miocene species increase the known diversity of the genus Smilax in low‐latitude regions and contribute to a better understanding of its interspecific variability. Smilax is sensitive to climatic change, and their spatial and temporal distribution fluctuates in response to the periods of warming or cooling in the Cenozoic. Moreover, Smilax primarily grows in warm and moist forests.

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“…The Miocene localities from where traces of plant-insect interaction have been reported include Toupi Formation, Fotan Group, and Bangmai Formation, China (Ma et al, 2020;Dong et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2021), Gish Clay Formation (Khan et al, 2015) and Dafla Formation (Khan et al, 2014b) of India. The percentage of leaf damage was highest in the Gish Clay Formation, Darjeeling (38%) followed by the Dafla Formation, Arunachal Pradesh (35%), the Fotan Group, Zhangpu County, China (34.1%), the Bangmai Formation, Yunnan Province, China (21%) and the Toupi Formation, Guangchang, China (20.33%).…”

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Plant–insect interaction patterns in the late Neogene palaeoforest of Chotanagpur Plateau, eastern India

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et al. 2022

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

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Liquidambar (Altingiaceae) and associated insect herbivory from the Miocene of southeastern China

Cited by 29 publications

References 32 publications

A case of long-term herbivory: specialized feeding trace on Parrotia (Hamamelidaceae) plant species

A case of long-term herbivory: specialized feeding trace on Parrotia (Hamamelidaceae) plant species

The diversity ofSmilax(Smilacaceae) leaves from the Middle Miocene in southeastern China

Plant–insect interaction patterns in the late Neogene palaeoforest of Chotanagpur Plateau, eastern India

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