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Pollination Drops, Pollen, and Insect Pollination of Mesozoic Gymnosperms See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233683963 Pollination Drops, Pollen, and Insect Pollination of Mesozoic Gymnosperms Article in Taxon · August 2007 DOI: 10.2307/25065853 CITATIONS READS 110 986 3 authors: Conrad Labandeira Jiří Kvaček Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic 307 PUBLICATIONS 8,247 CITATIONS 176 PUBLICATIONS 1,982 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Mike B. Mostovski Tel Aviv University 73 PUBLICATIONS 1,097 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Cretaceous Monocots View project Mesozoic Diptera Brachycera: Systematics and applications View project All content following this page was uploaded by Jiří Kvaček on 17 May 2014. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. TAXON 56 (3) • August 2007: 663–695 Labandeira & al. • Pollination and Mesozoic gymnosperms Pollination drops, pollen, and insect pollination of Mesozoic gymnosperms Conrad C. Labandeira1,2, Jiří Kvaček3 & Mikhail B. Mostovski4,5,6 1 Department of Paleobiology, P.O. Box 37012 (MRC-121), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A. [email protected] (author for correspondence) 2 Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A. 3 Department of Palaeontology, National Museum, Václavské nám. 68, Prague 1, Czech Republic 4 Natal Museum, Private Bag 9070, Pietermaritzburg 3200, South Africa 5 School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209 South Africa 6 Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123 Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow, 117997 Russia Recent focus on plant-insect associations during the angiosperm radiation from the last 30 million years of the Early Cretaceous has inadvertently de-emphasized a similar but earlier diversification that occurred among gymnosperms. The existence of gymnosperm-insect associations during the preangiospermous Mesozoic is evidenced by mouthparts capable of reaching and imbibing pollination drops or similar fluids, availability of pollen types consistent with entomophily, and opportunities for related consumption of pollen, seeds, and repro- ductively associated tissues in major seed-plant groups, namely seed ferns, conifers, cycads, bennettitaleans, and gnetaleans. Based on stereotypical plant damage, head-adherent pollen, gut contents, wing structure, mouthpart morphology and insect damage to plant reproductive organs, the likely nectarivores, pollinivores and pollinators were orthopterans, phasmatodeans, webspinners, sawflies and wasps, moths, beetles, mecopteroids, and true flies. These associations are ranked from possible to probable although the last three insect clades provide the strongest evidence for pollinator activity. We document two mid Cretaceous examples of these associations—cycadeoidea- ceous bennettitaleans and beetles and a cheirolepidiaceous conifer and flies—for which there are multiple lines of evidence for insect consumption of plant reproductive tissues but also pollination mutualisms. These data highlight the independent origin of a major phase of plant-insect pollinator-related associations during the mid Mesozoic that served as a prelude for the separate, iterative and later colonization of angiosperms. KEYWORDS: Alvinia, Bennettitales, Cheirolepidiaceae, Coleoptera, Diptera, insects, Mesozoic, plant- insect associations, pollination drop, seed plants Ash, 1997; Scott & al., 2004). One neglected aspect of INTRODUCTION this insect herbivore radiation on gymnosperm hosts is Considerable attention has been devoted to the angi- evidence for nectarivory, pollinivory, and varied damage osperm radiation and their co-radiating insect herbivores on ovuliferous or microsporangiate strobili, some of and pollinators during the mid-Cretaceous from 135 to which are interpretable as pollination mutualisms. These 90 million years ago (Ma) (Crepet, 1996; Grimaldi, 1999). associations represent specialized relationships that were However, a more prolonged, extensive, and evolutionarily analogous to those occurring later on angiosperms. Thus, important colonization of gymnospermous seed plants, these gymnosperm-based associations constituted the third especially by basal clades of holometabolous insects, evolutionary phase of the plant-insect associational fossil transpired during the mid-Triassic from about 245 to record that commenced during the Early Triassic (252 Ma), 220 Ma, continued throughout the Jurassic and into the after the end-Permian extinction, and continued through- earlier Cretaceous at around 100 Ma (Labandeira, 2006). out the Mesozoic, albeit at significantly decreased diversity The worldwide expression of this process consisted of as angiosperms assumed ecological dominance (Laban- major assemblages of plant hosts harboring damage at- deira, 2000, 2006). The mid-Triassic to mid-Cretaceous tributable to diverse types of external feeding, galling, co-radiations of insects and gymnosperms are contrasted leaf mining, piercing-and-sucking, seed predation, wood with the fourth phase of the radiation of angiosperms and boring and oviposition. Instances of this damage occur their insect associates that commenced during the Early in stereotypical and intricate patterns that are confined Cretaceous (115 Ma), an expansion that has been increasing to particular plant-host species but also blanket regional in dramatic ecological ways to the present. floras (Krassilov & Rasnitsyn, 1983; Jarzembowski, 1990; In this contribution, the inferred pollination-related Reymanówna, 1991; Grauvogel-Stamm & Kelber, 1996; associations of Mesozoic gymnospermous seed plants 663 Labandeira & al. • Pollination and Mesozoic gymnosperms TAXON 56 (3) • August 2007: 663–695 (Fig. 1A) and their insect participants (Fig. 1B) will be specialized as analogous associations between figs and documented and new data and interpretations will be pre- fig wasps (Machado & al., 2001), and undoubtedly are sented. Previously, a near exclusive focus on angiosperms older (Farrell, 1998; Klavins & al., 2005). This increase has been predominant in the fossil insect literature, char- in specialized associations between Mesozoic plant hosts acterized by skepticism with regard to evidence for pol- and their herbivore- and pollinator associates forms the lination or autecologically coupled types of feeding such ecological backdrop for the spectacular success of one as nectarivory, pollinivory or seed predation during the terminal, initially inconspicuous clade that displaced the preangiospermous Mesozoic (Grimaldi & Engel, 2005). dominant, earlier Mesozoic gymnospermous clades—the This view persists despite considerable evidence for and angiosperms. Given this context and evidence presented common recognition of these earlier associations (Crepet, below, it is appropriate to restate a hypothesis regarding 1974; Gottsberger, 1988; Crowson, 1991; Krassilov & Ras- the origin of angiosperm pollination, namely that it was nitsyn, 1999; Labandeira, 2000; Gorelick, 2001; Klavins & the gymnospermous pollination drop mechanism and al., 2005). For example, some authors (Oberprieler, 2004) its varied modifications (Baker & Hurd, 1968; Norstog have asserted a parallel delay in pollination and related 1987; Lloyd & Wells, 1992; Kato & Inoue, 1994; but see associations of cycads to the angiosperm dominated part Frame, 2003a), that served as a functional, anatomical, of the fossil record, even though extant major lineages of and ecological prelude to early angiosperm pollination. obligately insect-pollinated cycads extend back in time from the Early Cretaceous to Middle Triassic or possi- bly earlier (Gao & Thomas, 1989; Klavins & al., 2003; Anderson & al., 2007). Significantly, a predilection for GYMNOSPERMOUS POLLINATION understanding angiosperms and their pollinators forms DROP MeCHANisM, ZOOIDOGAMY, an important backdrop for the increased number of asso- AND SIPHONOGAMY ciations seen during the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Seed plants originated during the Late Devonian, (Crepet, 1979; 1996; Crepet & Nixon, 1998; Grimaldi & at which time there was among progymnosperms a Engel, 2005), and especially the modern world (Grant & mechanism for the reception of motile antherozooids Grant, 1965; Faegri & Pijl, 1981; Proctor & al., 1996). (Rothwell & Serbet, 1992) that evolved into an ovular An underappreciated fact is that the ensemble of pollination-drop mechanism. The pollination drop Mesozoic gymnospermous lineages were the physiog- mechanism ancestrally was used for prepollen or pollen nomic equals of angiosperms. Mesozoic gymnosperms capture (Fig. 2A), followed by various developmental included forms with herbaceous growth, lianas, shrubs, events that ended in fertilization. The earliest fossil evi- pachycauls, mangroves, stem succulents, monocot-like dence for the pollination drop mechanism is the callisto- pteridospermous trees, and trees with true secondary phytacean seed fern Callospermarion pusillum Eggert xylem deployed as polyaxial, branched dicot-like forms & Delevoryas from the Middle Pennsylvanian of the or as monaxial conifers (Upchurch & Doyle, 1981; Illinois Basin, U.S.A. (Figs. 2B, C; Rothwell, 1977; but Retallack & Dilcher, 1988; Tidwell & Ash, 1990; Ni- also see Retallack & Dilcher, 1988). Although this type klas, 1997; Rothwell & al., 2000; Dilcher & al., 2004). of pollen capture presumably occurred
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