Oligocene-Period Fossils Provide Evidence of Pollination Interaction between Flowers and Bumblebees

Tilia magnasepala. Image credit: Christian Geier.

Paleontologists have screened 24-million-year-old fossil flowers and bees from the Late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany, and identified a new species of linden, Tilia magnasepala, as well as two new bumblebee species, Bombus (Kronobombus) messegus and Bombus (Timebombus) palaeocrater.

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