Microfungi from the upper Visean (Mississippian) of central France: Chytridiomycota and chytrid-like remains of uncertain affinity

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 156, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 319-328

  Krings, Michael ^a,b   Dotzler, Nora ^a   Galtier, Jean ^c   Taylor, Thomas N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Dept of Ecol Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^c UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

callosity; Carboniferous; chert; endophyte; fossil fungi; host response; Paleoecology; parasitism; resting spore; Saprotrophism; zoosporangium

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; CHERT; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; MISSISSIPPIAN; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITISM; SAPROTROPHY; VISEAN; XYLEM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 70049108328     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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