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Table 1 The number of trace and body fossils by their preservational type and age

From: The fossil record and taphonomy of butterflies and moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera): implications for evolutionary diversity and divergence-time estimates

 

Trace fossils

Body fossils

Time intervals

CI

AM

SI

SA

PE

CI

AM

SI

SR

GC

AS

PE

Early Jurassic

1

0

0

0

0

14

0

0

0

0

0

0

Middle Jurassic

0

0

0

0

0

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

Late Jurassic

0

0

0

0

0

6

0

0

0

0

0

0

Early Cretaceous

47

0

0

0

0

15

26

0

0

0

0

0

Late Cretaceous

29

0

0

0

0

1

31

1

1

0

0

0

Early Paleocene

4

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

Middle Paleocene

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

Late Paleocene

3

0

0

0

0

1892

0

0

0

0

0

0

Early Eocene

4

0

0

0

0

12

0

0

0

0

0

0

Middle Eocene

28

111

0

0

0

18

1532

37

0

4

0

0

Late Eocene

6

0

0

0

0

67

5

0

0

0

0

0

Early Oligocene

0

0

0

0

0

27

1

1

0

0

0

0

Late Oligocene

2

0

4

0

0

12

0

2

0

0

0

0

Early Miocene

9

2

0

0

0

61

44

2

0

0

0

0

Middle Miocene

15

0

0

1

0

14

1

0

0

0

0

0

Late Miocene

7

0

20

0

0

14

0

0

0

0

0

0

Early Pliocene

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Late Pliocene

24

0

0

0

0

52

0

1

0

0

1

0

Pleistocene

0

0

8

0

1

2

18

0

296

0

1

1

Holocene

0

0

0

0

0

3

4

2

4

0

0

0

  1. Columns other than time intervals indicate preservation types: AM, amber and copal; AS, asphaltum and tar sands; CI, compressions and impressions; GC, gut contents and coprolites; PE, peat and lignite; SA, salt deposits; SR, sieved residues; and SI, silica and other forms of permineralization.