Donovan, M.P., Wilf, P., Iglesias, A., Rubén Cúneo, N., & Labandeira, C.C. 2023 Insect herbivore and fungal communities on Agathis (Araucariaceae) from the latest Cretaceous to Recent. PhytoKeys 226: 109–158

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Notes: The authors provide complete documentation of the fossilized Agathis herbivore communities from Cretaceous to Recent, describing and comparing insect and fungal damage on Agathis across four latest Cretaceous to early Paleogene time slices in Patagonia with that on 15 extant species. Enigmatic structures, possibly armored scale insect (Diaspididae) covers or galls, occur on Agathis over a 16-million-year period in the early Paleogene. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.226.99316

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