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Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous.
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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 shortwinged 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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PERIS CERDÁN, David, et al. Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous. iScience. 2020. Vol. 100913. ISSN 2589-0042. [consulted: 20 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/163337