Plant predation by insects is a major driver of high plant diversity in modern tropical forests.
Previous reports of leaf damage in middle–late Paleocene Neotropical rainforests of
Cerrejón, Colombia, show that leaf herbivory was abundant but of low diversity, mainly
inflicted by generalized feeders. Here, we present and describe plant-insect associations in
leaf fossils from the middle–late Paleocene Bogotá Formation, central Colombia, to test
whether the high abundance and low richness of insect damage typified early evolving …

Rich and specialized plant-insect associations in a Mid-Late Paleocene (58–60 Ma)
Neotropical rainforest (Bogotá Formation, Colombia) …