Table 2. Occurrence of damage types (DTs) recorded from Messel and Eckfeld and DTs that are already known from other European floras.
Locality | DTs | ||||||
HF | MF | SF | G | M | PS | OV | |
Messel | 14 | 11 | 12 | 29 | 23 | 5 | 4 |
known from other European floras § | 14 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 2 |
Eckfeld | 13 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 18 | 2 | 1 |
known from other European floras § | 12 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 1 |
Abbreviations are: HF, hole feeding; MF, margin feeding; SF, surface feeding; G, galling; M, leaf mining; PS, piercing and sucking, and OV, oviposition. Fifty-five new DTs, including seed predation and skeletonitazion but not shown in the table, are recognized from both localities.