Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous

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作者
Peris, David [1 ]
Labandeira, Conrad C. [2 ,3 ,4 ]
Barron, Eduardo [5 ]
Delclos, Xavier [6 ,7 ]
Rust, Jes [1 ]
Wang, Bo [8 ,9 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bonn, Inst Geosci, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[2] Smithsonian Inst, Dept Paleobiol, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Washington, DC 20013 USA
[3] Univ Maryland, Dept Entomol & Behav, Ecol Evolut & Systemat Program, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[4] Capital Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China
[5] Inst Geol & Minero Espana, Museo Geominero, Madrid 28003, Spain
[6] Univ Barcelona, Dept Dinam Terra & Ocea, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
[7] Univ Barcelona, Inst Recerca Biodiversitat IRBio, Fac Ciencies Terra, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
[8] Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China
[9] Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Palaeoenvironm, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
FLORAL BIOLOGY; SP NOV; POLLINATION BIOLOGY; INSECT POLLINATION; ANGIOSPERM POLLEN; BURMESE AMBER; WATER LILIES; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; GEN;
D O I
10.1016/j.isci.2020.100913
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
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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