Mycoparasitism in Dubiocarpon, a fungal sporocarp from the Carboniferous

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-245

  Krings, Michael ^a   Dotzler, Nora ^a   Taylor, Thomas N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Interfungal association; Lower coal measures (great britain); Pennsylvanian; Sporocarp; Zygomycota; Zygospore

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; FUNGUS; MORPHOTYPE; MYCOPARASITE; PENNSYLVANIAN;

UNITED KINGDOM;

DUBIOCARPON; FUNGI; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 80955146166     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0196     Document Type: Article

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