@Plantlejandro

Colombian botanist and paleobiologist🇨🇴 I like plants, insects, and plant-eating insects. PhD candidate at @GeoscPSU Check: https://xitter.cf/t.co/yIKMWx8fen

Joined March 2021
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I have a pretty cool story for this #FossilFriday, just published in @NewPhyt -> shorturl.at/slYUG. TL;DR: Insect lineages tracked gum trees (plants in the genus Eucalyptus) for 52 million years, from the Eocene of Argentine Patagonia to modern-day Australia! A thread 1/n🧵

Fossil insect‐feeding traces indicate unrecognized evolutionary history and biodiversity on...

Fossilized plant–insect herbivore associations provide fundamental information about the assembly of terrestrial communities through geologic time. However, fossil evidence of associations origina...

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Great to see that our paper in @plantspplplanet making the front cover. One of the more unusual images to make the front cover of a scientific journal nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/… @KewScience
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So there you go! A story of insect lineages tracking their plant host for 52 million years across the Southern Hemisphere. A story of how the fossil record can help in discovering living biodiversity. The past as a key to the present. 22/n
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This was only possible with the help of fantastic mentors and coauthors. Peter Wilf (@RadioGondwana), Michael P. Donovan (at @FieldMuseum), Robert M. Kooyman (at @mqnatsci @BotanicSydney @mobotgarden) and Maria A. Gandolfo @Maria_Gandolfo). @PSUEMS @PPaleofloras @mefpatagonia
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