Fossil mushrooms from Miocene and Cretaceous ambers and the evolution of homobasidiomycetes

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 981-991

  Hibbett, David S ^a   Grimaldi, David ^b   Donoghue, Michael J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amber; Archaeomarasmius; Basidiomycetes; Evolution; Fossil fungi; Paleomycology; Protomycena; Tricholomataceae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; ELECTRA; FUNGI; HOMOBASIDIOMYCETES; MARASMIELLUS; MARASMIUS; MYCENA; TRICHOLOMATACEAE;

EID: 0030865545     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2446289     Document Type: Article

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