Fungal sporocarps from the Carboniferous: An unusual specimen of Traquairia

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Krings, Michael ^a,b   Taylor, Thomas N ^b   White, James F ^c  

^a BAYERISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG FÜR PALÄONTOLOGIE UND GEOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocladiomycota; Fossil fungi; Lower Coal Measures (Great Britain); Peronosporomycetes; Terminology; Zygomycota

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CARBONIFEROUS; COAL MEASURES; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNGUS; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRITION; PALEOECOLOGY; PARASITE; PEAT; SAPROTROPHY; SPORE; SPORULATION; TAXONOMY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ENTOMOPHTHORALES; FUNGI; OOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 80054120413     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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