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Issue: Vol. 7 No. 2: April 2024
Type: Review
Published: 2024-04-19
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.2.3
Page range: 184-216
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Deciphering plant insect interactions from the Bruay Formation (Carboniferous, Nord / Pas-De-Calais coal basin, France)

Conservation Paléontologie et Paléobotanique, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Grenoble, Grenoble, 38100 France. Levesano (French law, 1901). Association for Preservation of Historical and Cultural Patrimonial of Liévin, Maison de la Mémoire, rue du 4 septembre, 62800 Lievin, France
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (Isyeb) Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université Des Antilles, 75005 Paris, France
UFR Sciences de la Terre, Université de Lille 1 - Sciences et Technologies. Cité Scientifique, bâtiment SN5, 59655, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) – CONICET, IMBIV: Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Centro de Relevamiento y Evaluación de Recursos Agrícolas y Naturales (CREAN), Av. Valparaíso s/n, 5016 Córdoba, Argentina
Bruay Formation Moscovian Plant-Insect interactions Carboniferous Nord-Pas-De-Calais coal basin France

Abstract

Plant-animal interactions shed light on the ecology of the rich insect community from the middle Pennsylvanian basin of Northern France (Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal basin, Hauts-de-France). The data set derives from coal bed layers locally named the Bruay Formation and were collected on the slag heap. This work is a meta-analysis of the different types of damages caused by arthropods, especially insects, consisting of endophytic oviposition scars, holes, galls, bulges, and undetermined traces. These damage traces are associated with host plants belonging to Lycopsida, Medullosales, Pinopsida, and Polypodiopsida. The paleoenvironmental framework and mutualism within each community are also discussed. Based on the present discoveries in Northern France, these interactions may have occurred stratigraphically from Westphalian B (Anzin Formation) until to Westphalian C (Bruay Formation). Despite the limited fossilization potential and sampling difficulties due to slag heap bias, occurrences may be compared with other European localities of the Carboniferous age.

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