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Mycocarpon rhyniense
Mycocarpon rhyniense M. Krings, T.N. Taylor, Ed.L. Taylor, Kerp, Dotzler Palaeobiodiv. Palaeoenv., 2014, 94: 0 [2] 222. 23 Oct 2013
- Name
- Mycocarpon rhyniense
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Mycocarpon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Krings M.
Taylor T. N.
Taylor E. L.
Kerp H.
Dotzler N.
- Publication
- First record of a fungal “sporocarp” from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert [2013/10]
- Journal
- Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2014
- Volume
- 94
- Page number
- 0 [2] 222
- Year
- 2013
- Fossil Status
- sporocarps
- Stratigraphy
- Pragian
- Location
- Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, U.K.
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Avalonia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany
- Repository Number
- SlideBSPG2013V17
- Diagnosis
- Spherical microfossil, ≤70 μm in diameter, with two-layered investment composed of septate hyphae that enclose a central cavity; cavity bounded by delicate non-hyphal layer; investment >10 μm thick, inner layer representing one- to two-storied system of interlaced, irregularly swollen hyphae, outer layer constructed of narrow tubular, sinuous, or irregularly constricted to catenulate hyphal branches extending from periphery of inner layer; majority of hyphal branches comprising outer layer radially or near-radially arranged, usually ending blindly in periphery of investment, but sometimes also recurved and re-entering inner layer.
