The record of Australian Jurassic plant-arthropod interactions

• Published in: Gondwana Research
• Main Authors: McLoughlin, Stephen, Martin, Sarah
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Enheten för paleobiologi 2015
• Subjects: Mesozoic; Arthropod damage types; Functional feeding groups; Gymnosperms; Ferns; Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Annan geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Glossopteris; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-1341; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.11.009

A survey of Australian Jurassic plant fossil assemblages reveals examples of foliar andwood damage generated by terrestrial arthropods attributed to leaf-margin feeding, surface feeding, lamina hole feeding, galling, piercingand-sucking, leaf-mining, boring and oviposition. These types of damage are...