Perithecial ascomycetes from the 400 million year old Rhynie chert: An example of ancestral polymorphism

Mycologia

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1403-1419

  Taylor, T N ^a   Hass, H ^b   Kerp, H ^b   Krings, M ^c   Hanlin, R T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Staatssammlung F Anthropologie P   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anamorph; Arthrospores; Ascomycete; Ascospores; Conidia; Fossil fungi; Lower devonian; Mycoparasite; Perithecium; Rhynie chert; Teleomorph

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FOSSIL; FUNGUS; MYCOPARASITE; PHYLOGENY;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASTEROXYLON; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTOVALVA; FUNGI; MYA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 13144259733     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3762157     Document Type: Article

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