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Late Triassic Moths may change theories on flower-insect coevolution

Started by ZoPteryx, January 11, 2018, 06:46:24 AM

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January 11, 2018, 06:46:24 AM Last Edit: January 11, 2018, 06:47:04 AM by ZoPteryx
Previously ignored fossilized wing-scales move the earliest record of tube-mouthed moths back to the Triassic/Jurassic boundary, which is in better accordance with molecular data.  However, this adds a wrinkle to the popular theory that flowering plants and nectivorous insects coevolved later in the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.

Good article:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/triassic-butterfly-park/

The open-access paper:
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/e1701568.full

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