Pre-Cretaceous Agaricomycetes yet to be discovered: Reinvestigation of a putative Triassic bracket fungus from southern Germany

Autor: A. P. Kiecksee, L. J. Seyfullah, H. Dörfelt, J. Heinrichs, H. Süß, A. R. Schmidt
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Fossil Record, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 85-89 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2193-0074
DOI: 10.1002/mmng.201200006
Popis: Agaricomycetes are major components of extant terrestrial ecosystems; however, their fruiting bodies are exceedingly rare as fossils. Reinvestigation of a peculiar fossil from Late Triassic sediments of southern Germany interpreted as a bracket fungus revealed that this fossil in fact represents a wood abnormality, resulting from injury to the cambium and subsequent callus growth in a Baieroxylon -like ginkgoalean wood. As a result, the fossil record of the Agaricomycetes does not yet pre-date the Early Cretaceous, suggesting a late diversification of basidiomycetes possessing large fruiting bodies.doi:10.1002/mmng.201200006
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