Earliest evidence of granivory from China (Shanxi Formation) points to seeds as a food source and nursing habitat for insects in the earliest Permian humid tropical forests of Cathaysia

• Artai A. Santos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paleobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-8825

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• Torsten Wappler,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Natural History Department, Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt, Germany, Department of Palaeontology, Institute of Geosciences, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1592-0988

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• Stephen McLoughlin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: steve.mcloughlin@nrm.se

  Affiliation Department of Paleobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

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