The earliest fossil flower bugs (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha: Cimicoidea: Vetanthocoridae) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China

Hou, Wei; Yao, Yunzhi; Zhang, Weiting; Ren, Dong

doi:10.14411/eje.2012.036

Cited by 17 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 14 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, the unexpectedly great diversity of angiosperms in the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Duan 1998 ; Sun et al 1998 , 2002 ; Leng and Friis 2003 , 2006 ; Ji et al 2004 ; Wang and Zheng 2009 ; Wang 2010a ) implies a prior crypt history of angiosperms; palaeobotanists have demonstrated the existence of angiospermy in fossil plants from the Jurassic (Wang et al 2007 ; Wang 2010a , 2010b ; Wang and Wang 2010 ); pollen grains indistinguishable from angiosperms have been seen in the Triassic (Hochuli and Feist-Burkhardt 2004 , 2013 ) and independent studies have also converged to the same conclusion (Schweitzer 1977 ; Cornet 1989a , 1989b , 1993 ; Chang et al 2004 ; Soltis et al 2008 ; Prasad et al 2011 ). Interestingly, insects closely related to angiosperms or flowers have been reported from the Middle Jurassic in northeast China (Wang and Zhang 2011 ; Hou et al 2012 ). In spite of all these, most palaeobotanists appear hesitant to accept before a fossil flower typical of angiosperms is seen in the pre-Cretaceous.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A perfect flower from the Jurassic of China

Liu¹,

Wang

2015

Historical Biology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Flower, enclosed ovule and tetrasporangiate anther are three major characters distinguishing angiosperms from other seed plants. Morphologically, typical flowers are characterised by an organisation with gynoecium and androecium surrounded by corolla and calyx. Theoretically, flowers are derived from their counterparts in ancient ancestral gymnosperms. However, as for when, how and from which groups, there is no consensus among botanists yet. Although angiosperm-like pollen and angiosperms have been claimed in the Triassic and Jurassic, typical flowers with the aforesaid three key characters are still missing in the pre-Cretaceous age, making many interpretations of flower evolution tentative. Thus searching for flower in the pre-Cretaceous has been a tantalising task for palaeobotanists for a long time. Here, we report a typical flower, Euanthus panii gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle–Late Jurassic of Liaoning, China. Euanthus has sepals, petals, androecium with tetrasporangiate dithecate anthers and gynoecium with enclosed ovules, organised just like in perfect flowers of extant angiosperms. The discovery of Euanthus implies that typical angiosperm flowers have already been in place in the Jurassic, and provides a new insight unavailable otherwise for the evolution of flowers.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A perfect flower from the Jurassic of China

Liu¹,

Wang

2015

Historical Biology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Fifteen fossil records from various lineages were used in calibration (Table ). An attempt was made to use the oldest convincing fossil record known for each group (Tillyard, ; Popov, ; Lin, ; Popov et al., ; Fraser et al., ; Azar et al., ; Perrichot et al., ; Yao et al., , ,b; Damgaard, ; Azar and Nel, ; Hou et al., ). According to the criteria suggested by Parham et al., , we provided information on fossil taxon descriptions, localities, age, mode of preservation and references for each fossil record (Table ).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Phylogenetic divergences of the true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the aquatic lineages: the last piece of the aquatic insect jigsaw originated in the Late Permian/Early Triassic

et al. 2015

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Heteroptera are among the most diverse hemimetabolous insects. Seven infraorders have been recognized within this suborder of Hemiptera. Apart from the well-established sister-group relationship between Cimicomorpha and Pentatomomorpha (= Terheteroptera), the two terminal lineages, the relationships among the other five infraorders are still controversial, of which three (Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha and Leptopodomorpha) are intimately connected to aquatic environments. However, the various and often conflicting available phylogeny hypotheses do not offer a clear background for a connection between diversification and palaeoenvironments. In this study, a molecular data set representing 79 taxa and 10 149 homologous sites is used to infer the phylogenetic relationships within Heteroptera. Bayesian inference, maximum-likelihood and maximum parsimony analyses were employed. The results of phylogenetic inferences largely confirm the widely accepted phylogenetic context. Estimation of the divergence time based on the phylogenetic results revealed that Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha and Leptopodomorpha originated successively during the period from the Late Permian to Early Triassic . This timescale is consistent with the origin and radiation time of various aquatic holometabolans. Our results indicate that the aquatic and semi-aquatic true bugs evolved under environmental conditions of high air temperature and humidity in an evolutionary scenario similar to that of the aquatic holometabolans.

show abstract

“…Yanliao predatory insects include various odonatans (Huang and Cai, in press) such as the damsel-dragonfly Zygokaratawia reni (Nel et al, 2008), above-ground diurnal geinitziids (Cui et al, 2012), the raphidiomimid cockroach Graciliblatta bella (Liang et al, 2012), and the flower bug Pumilanthocoris (Hou et al, 2012), all of which fed on other insects. Predatory spiders include the insect-eating nephilid Nephila jurassica (Selden et al, 2011), among others.…”

Section: Biodiversity and Paleoecology Of The Yanliao Biotamentioning

confidence: 99%

An Updated Review of the Middle‐Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota: Chronology, Taphonomy, Paleontology and Paleoecology

Zhou

Sullivan

et al. 2016

Acta Geologica Sinica (Eng)

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The northeastern Chinese Yanliao Biota (sometimes called the Daohugou Biota) comprises numerous, frequently spectacular fossils of non‐marine organisms, occurring in Middle‐Upper Jurassic strata in western Liaoning, northern Hebei, and southeastern Inner Mongolia. The biota lasted for about 10 million years, divided into two phases: the Bathonian‐Callovian Daohugou phase (about 168–164 million years ago) and the Oxfordian Linglongta phase (164–159 million years ago). The Yanliao fossils are often taphonomically exceptional (many vertebrate skeletons, for example, are complete and accompanied by preserved integumentary features), and not only are taxonomically diverse but also include the oldest known representatives of many groups of plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. These fossils have provided significant new information regarding the origins and early evolution of such clades as fleas, birds, and mammals, in addition to the evolution of some major biological structures such as feathers, and have demonstrated the existence of a complex terrestrial ecosystem in northeast China around the time of the Middle‐Late Jurassic boundary.

show abstract

The earliest fossil flower bugs (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha: Cimicoidea: Vetanthocoridae) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

A perfect flower from the Jurassic of China

A perfect flower from the Jurassic of China

Phylogenetic divergences of the true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the aquatic lineages: the last piece of the aquatic insect jigsaw originated in the Late Permian/Early Triassic

An Updated Review of the Middle‐Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota: Chronology, Taphonomy, Paleontology and Paleoecology

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About