MITE-PLANT ASSOCIATIONS FROM THE EOCENE OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA

被引：30

作者：

ODOWD, DJ

BREW, CR

CHRISTOPHEL, DC

NORTON, RA

机构：

[1] UNIV ADELAIDE, DEPT BOT, ADELAIDE, SA 5001, AUSTRALIA

[2] SUNY COLL ENVIRONM SCI & FORESTRY, SYRACUSE, NY 13210 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 1991年 / 252卷 / 5002期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.252.5002.99

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：

Acarodomatia or "mite houses" are located on leaves of many present-day angiosperms and are inhabited by mites that may maintain leaf hygiene. Eocene deposits in southern Australia have yielded acarodomatia on fossil leaves of Elaeocarpaceae and Lauraceae and also contain oribatid mites with close affinities to those that inhabit the acarodomatia of the closest living relatives of the fossil plant taxa. The data indicate that mite-plant associations may have been widespread in southern Australia 40 million years ago.

引用

页码：99 / 101

页数：3

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