Plant–insect interactions from the mid-Cretaceous at Puy-Puy (Aquitaine Basin, western France) indicates preferential herbivory for angiosperms amid a forest of ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms
Authors/Creators
- 1. Departamento de Geociencias Mariñas e Ordenación do Territorio, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar. Universidade de Vigo, 36200 Vigo Spain
- 2. College of Life Sciences and Academy for Multidisciplinary Studies, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048 PRC
- 3. Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013 USA
- 4. Université de Rennes, UMR 6118, Géosciences Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes, France
- 5. GIP-GEVES (Groupement d'Étude et de Contrôle des Variétés et Semences), Le Magneraud, F-17700 Surgères, France
- 6. Biogéosciences, UMR 6282, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 6, boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France
- 7. Department of Natural History, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Friedensplatz 1, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Contributors
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Data curator:
- 1. Departamento de Geociencias Mariñas e Ordenación do Territorio, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar. Universidade de Vigo, 36200 Vigo Spain
- 2. College of Life Sciences and Academy for Multidisciplinary Studies, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048 PRC
- 3. Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013 USA
- 4. Department of Natural History, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Friedensplatz 1, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Description
The nine in-text figures and table below (Appendices S1–S10), and the additional text and excel files attached, provide the raw data, summaries of the raw data, rarefaction analyses, and nonmetric multidimensional scale analyses (NMDS) that support the discussions of the main text. The raw data and their summaries of provide for each plant species or morphotype values important for assessment of their herbivory: percentage of specimens herbivorized, damage type (DT) richness, DT frequency, DT host-plant specificity, herbivorized surface area as a proportion of total surface area, and feeding event occurrences. The rarefaction analyses furnished evaluations of whether the number of samples was sufficient, given the surface area covered by those samples. For comparison, the number of samples was rarified to the number of DTs in those samples. Lastly, two NMDS analyses produced the relationships between the plant orders present in the plant assemblage and their interactive functional feeding groups (FFGs). A separate NMDS analysis shows the association between the three most herbivorized species and their FFGs.