ArticleNature plants2021
Angiosperm pollinivory in a Cretaceous beetle.
Article in Nature plants, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Revisiting early angiosperm pollination: a reassessment of Angimordella beetle and co-occurring thrips from mid-Cretaceous amber.BMC biology · 2026Article
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- New insights on angiosperm crown age based on Bayesian node dating and skyline fossilized birth-death approaches.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The impact of thermogenesis on the origin of insect pollination.Nature plants · 2024Review
- A new fossil species of the extant genusEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- A New Subgenus of the GenusInsects · 2023Article
- Morphological Study of the Alimentary Canal and Malpighian Tubules in the Adult of the Pollen BeetleInsects · 2023Article
- A New Genus of Sap Beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from Mid-Cretaceous Amber of Northern Myanmar.Insects · 2022Article
- The earliest beetle with mouthparts specialized for feeding on nectar is a parasitoid of mid-Cretaceous Hymenoptera.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Despite the crucial importance of flower-visiting insects in modern ecosystems, there is little fossil evidence on the origins of angiosperm pollination. Most reports of pollination in the Mesozoic fossil record have been based on the co-occurrence of the purported pollinators with pollen grains and assumed morphological adaptations for vectoring pollen. Here, we describe an exceptionally preserved short-winged flower beetle (Cucujoidea: Kateretidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber, Pelretes vivificus gen. et sp. nov., associated with pollen aggregations and coprolites consisting mainly of pollen, providing direct evidence of pollen-feeding in a Cretaceous beetle and confirming that diverse beetle lineages visited early angiosperms in the Cretaceous. The exquisite preservation of our fossil permits the identification of the pollen grains as Tricolpopollenites (Asteridae or Rosidae), representing a record of flower beetle pollination of a group of derived angiosperms in the Mesozoic and suggesting that potentially diverse beetle lineages visited early angiosperms by the mid-Cretaceous.
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