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The discovery of impressions of 11 kinds of lepidopterous leaf mines, together with a reevaluation of previous reports, contributes significantly to the fossil record for that insect order. It is also concluded that some specific insect-plant associations have persisted from the Miocene to the present.
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Paul A. Opler (1973) studied this question.
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