Hassiella monospora gen. et sp. nov., a microfungus from the 400 million year old Rhynie chert

TN Taylor, M Krings, H Kerp - Mycological research, 2006 - Elsevier
A new microfungus, Hassiella monospora gen. et sp. nov., consisting of coenocytic hyphae
is associated with degraded plant material in the Early Devonian silicified Rhynie chert …

Spores in situ and problems of the classification of Mesozoic tree ferns

AS Shuklina, SV Polevova - Paleontological Journal, 2007 - Springer
Although tree ferns dominated the Mesozoic flora, their taxonomic relationships are poorly
understood at the generic level, and next to nothing can be said of evolutionary trends within …

New insights and evolutionary significance of the megasporangiate strobilus of Minostrobus chaohuensis (Lycopsida) from the Upper Devonian of South China

M Meng, D Wang, J Xue, X Zhu - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2013 - Elsevier
Heterosporous lycopsids with monosporangiate strobili are highly diverse in the
Carboniferous, but their early evolution is poorly understood. The Late Devonian …

Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras

D Edwards, JL Morris, JB Richardson… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Cryptospores, recovered from Ordovician through Devonian rocks, differ from trilete spores
in possessing distinctive configurations (ie hilate monads, dyads, and permanent tetrads) …

Evolutionary relationships among aquatic anamorphs and teleomorphs: Lemonniera, Margaritispora, and Goniopila

J Campbell, C Shearer, L Marvanová - Mycological Research, 2006 - Elsevier
The hypothesis that similar conidial morphologies in aquatic hyphomycetes are a result of
convergent evolution was tested using molecular sequence data. Cladistic analyses were …

Germination shields in Scutellospora (Glomeromycota: Diversisporales, Gigasporaceae) from the 400 million-year-old Rhynie chert

N Dotzler, M Krings, TN Taylor, R Agerer - Mycological Progress, 2006 - Springer
Glomeromycotan spores from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert provide the first evidence
for germination shields in fossil fungi and demonstrate that this complex mode of …

Studies on the megaspores of a mid-Triassic lycopsid in Shaanxi, China

W Zi-qiang, L Yun-yun - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 1990 - jipb.net
Structural details of the megaspores both in situ, preserved within one kind of spore-bearing
organs previously assigned to Annalepis zeilleri Fliche, and in dispersal, found from the …

[HTML][HTML] Early-diverging fungal phyla: taxonomy, species concept, ecology, distribution, anthropogenic impact, and novel phylogenetic proposals

K Voigt, TY James, PM Kirk, ALCMA Santiago… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
The increasing number of new fungal species described from all over the world along with
the use of genetics to define taxa, has dramatically changed the classification system of …

On the relation of Potamomyces armatisporus to the fossil form-type Mediaverrunites and its taxonomical and ecological implications

F Schlütz, LS Shumilovskikh - fungal ecology, 2013 - Elsevier
This study links the spores of the recent ascomycete genus Potamomyces with the fossil
form-taxa Mediaverrunites. Spores of the only known representative of Potamomyces, P …

[HTML][HTML] Database-based Eco-Plant analysis for Mesozoic dispersed sporomorphs

J Zhang, OK Lenz, P Wang, Y Gao, J Hornung - MethodsX, 2021 - Elsevier
Patterns of community assemblage for plants are associated with particular climatic
elements such as water, heat, light, and air. The classification based on these plant …