A New Species of Rhodoleia（Hamamelidaceae） from the Upper Pliocene of West Yunnan, China and Comments on Phytogeography and Insect Herbivory.pdfVIP

Vo1．89No．5PP．1440—1452 ACTAGEOLOGICASINICA (EnglishEdition) Oct．2015 ANewSpeciesofRhodoleia(Hamamelidaceae)fromtheUpper PlioceneofW estYunnan，ChinaandCommentsonPhytOge0graphyand InsectHerbivory wuJingyu’，ZHAOZhenrui，LIQijia，LIUYusheng(Christopher)， XIESanping ．DING Suting，andSUN Bainian’ 1KeyLaboratoryofMineralResourcesin ternChina(GansuProvince)．SchoolofEarthSciences． LanzhouUniversity,Lanzhou730000,China 2StateKeyLaboratoryofPalaeobiologyandStratigraphy,NdnjingInstituteofGeologyandPaleontoloyg, CAS．Nan／ing210008．China 3DonSun由uistCenterofExcellenceinPaleontoloyg,DepartmentofBiologicalSciences，EastTennessee StateUniversity,BON 70703．JohnsonCitV,Tennessee37614-1710, Abstract：InEurope，fossilfruitsandseedsofRhodoleia(Hamamelidaceae)havebeendescribedfrom theUpperCretaceoustotheM iocene，whereasnoofssilrecordofRhodoleiahasbeenreportedinAsia． wherethemodernspeciesoccur．Herein，21ofssilleavesidentifiedasRhodoleiatengchon窖ensissp．nov． aredescribedrfom theUpperPlioceneofTengchongCounty，YunnanProvince，SouthwestChina．The ofssilsexhibitellipticlaminawithentiremargins，simplebrochidodromousmajorsecondaryveins， mixed percurrent intercostaltertiary veins。and looped exterior tertiaries．The leaf cuticle is characterizedbypentagonalorhexagonalcells，stellatemulticellulartrichomes，andparacyticstomata． Thecombinationofleafarchitectureandcnticularcharacteristicssuggeststhatthefossilleavesshould beclassified intothegenusRhodoleia．TheofssildistributionsindicatethatthegenusRhodoleiamight originatefrom CentralEurope，and thatmigrated toAsiapriorto theLatePliocene．Additionally． insectdamageisinvestigated，and differenttypesofdamage，such asholefeeding，margin feeding， surfacefeeding，andgalling，areobservedonthethir