Fossil feeding traces—

such as chewed margins and holes in leaves—

provide key evidence for reconstructing

the long-standing interactions and coevolution

between plants and small animals (including insects and mites)

that have continued since the Early Devonian,

cross an immense timescale of about 470 million years.

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By applying the classification framework for

traces on plant impression and compression fossils (FFGs and DTs),

researchers can investigate how plant–herbivore interactions

have changed through time and across different fossil localities.

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