Diverse Mesozoic thrips carrying pollen during the gymnosperm-to-angiosperm plant-host ecological shift
Summary: Insects are important pollinators, and entomophilous pollination of gymnosperms occurred long before the Cretaceous radiation of angiosperms, but most extant pollination systems involve angiosperms.We studied four thrips of the extinct genus Tethysthrips present in Albian (Early Cretaceous) Spanish amber, one of which carried a patch of gy