Giraldo, L.A. 2025 Comparisons of insect and pathogen leaf damage on early Eocene Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) from Patagonia and extant Australasian gum trees. PhytoKeys 266: 177–217

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Notes: From the fossil material, the author describes a diverse suite of 33 insect-mediated and pathogenic damage types (DTs), including twelve types of external feeding interactions, one of piercing-and-sucking marks, five of galls, ten of mines, three of pathogenic traces, and two of oviposition scars. The wide range of ecological interactions, indicates that E. frenguelliana was an important ecological resource in ancient Patagonian rainforests. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.266.166635

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