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Petsamomyces
Genus Petsamomyces M.Yu. Belova in M.Yu. Belova, A.M. Akhmedov Paleontol. J., 40(5): 471. Sep 2006
- Name
- Petsamomyces
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Name)
- Belova M. Yu.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Belova M. Yu.
Akhmedov A. M.
- Publication
- Petsamomyces, a new genus of organic-walled microfossils from the coal-bearing deposits of the Early Proterozoic, Kola Peninsula [2006/9]
- Journal
- Paleontological Journal
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 5
- Page number
- 471
- Year
- 2006
- Parent Taxon
- [Regnum] Fungi
- Fossil Status
- thallus (hyphal)
- Type
- Petsamomyces polymorphus
- Diagnosis
- Three-dimensional microfossils of variable morphology: spherical, oval with appendages, irregularly amoeboid coats, and thin branching filaments. Thalli of two types: amoeboid bodies of irregular, elongate, occasionally complicated shape, with solid coat, occasionally with appendages, and short thin branching hyphalike filaments. Morphotypes are interrelated: the amoeboid bodies obviously had thickened and/or densely interlaced hyphae. Reproductive organs: spherical structures with solid and apparently resistant
coats (“cysts”), spherical structures with appendages (“germinating cysts”), and drop-shaped or oval structures with appendages (“sporangia”).
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