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Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous

iScience, ISSN: 2589-0042, Vol: 23, Issue: 3, Page: 100913
2020
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  • Citations
    45
  • Captures
    31
  • Mentions
    4
    • References
      2
      • Wikipedia
        2
    • Blog Mentions
      1
      • Blog
        1
    • News Mentions
      1
      • News
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  • Social Media
    26
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
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      • Facebook
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The Cretaceous fossil record of amber provides a variety of evidence that is essential for greater understanding of early pollination strategies. Here, we describe four pieces of ca. 99-million-year-old (early Cenomanian) Myanmar amber from Kachin containing four closely related genera of short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) associated with abundant pollen grains identified as three distinct palynomorphotypes of the gymnosperm Cycadopites and Praenymphaeapollenites cenomaniensis gen. and sp. nov., a form-taxon of pollen from a basal angiosperm lineage of water lilies (Nymphaeales: Nymphaeaceae). We demonstrate how a gymnosperm to angiosperm plant-host shift occurred during the mid-Cretaceous, from a generalist pollen-feeding family of beetles, which served as a driving mechanism for the subsequent success of flowering plants.

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