Insect herbivory, plant defense, and early Cenozoic climate change -- Data Supplement - Supplemental Data -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Supplementary material for Wilf et al. (May 15, 2001) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.111069498

Fig. 5.
Selected examples of middle Eocene insect damage types (DT, see Table 4) from the Green River Formation. (a) Extensive skeletonization with reaction rim (DT17) and trenched margin feeding (DT15, arrow) on Macginitiea wyomingensis, DMNH [Denver Museum of Nature and Science (formerly Denver Museum of Natural History)] 10017, DMNH locality (loc.) 323. (b) Blotch mine with serpentine frass trail (DT37, arrow to frass trail) and a medium-sized hole feed (DT3, Top) on "Caesalpinia" pecorae, DMNH 9623, loc. 1732. (c) Gall on petiole (DT55) of indeterminate dicot leaf, DMNH 10232, loc. 1732. (d) Galls on blade, not on major veins (DT32, over whole leaf blade), large blotch mines with no central chamber (DT36, arrows), and medium-sized hole feed (DT3, lower left) on Populus wilmattae, DMNH 9128, loc. 1732. (Scale bars: 1 cm for a, c, and d; 0.5 cm for b.)