Flora Plants
Fungi
New taxa NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType localityLocationNotesImagesAllocordycepsGen. et sp. novIn pressPoinar & MaltierEoceneBaltic amberEurope (Baltic Sea region)A fungus belonging to the group Hypocreales and the family Clavicipitaceae. Genus includes new species A. baltica.BleximothyriumGen. et sp. novValidLe Renard et al.Early Cretaceous (Aptian)Potomac Group()A dothideomycete fly-speck fungus. Type species B. ostiolatum.Chaenothecopsis polissicaSp. novValidHeluta & Sukhomlyn in Sukhomlyn et al.Late EoceneRovno amberA species of Chaenothecopsis.Columnomyces electriSp. novValidHaelewaters & Perreau in Perreau, Haelewaters & TafforeauMioceneDominican amberA laboulbeniale fungus, parasitic on the beetle Proptomaphaginus alleni.Glomites oqotiSp. novIn pressLalica & TomescuDevonian (Emsian)Battery Point Formation()Spores with affinities to the Glomeromycotina.Meliolinites scanicusSp. novIn pressMcLoughlin et al.Late Cretaceous (Santonian–early Campanian)A member of the family Meliolaceae.Nyssopsora eocaenicaSp. novValidTykhonenko & Hayova in Tykhonenko et al.Middle EoceneNaibuchi Formation(Sakhalinian amber)()A member of Pucciniales.RhizophyditesGen. et sp. novValidKrings, Serbet & HarperEarly DevonianRhynie chertA Chytridiomycotan fungus. Type species R. matryoshkae. StomatothyriumGen. et sp. novValidLe Renard et al.Early Cretaceous (Aptian)Potomac Group()A member of Dothideomycetes. Genus includes new species S. placocentrum.Stomiopeltites ivoeensisSp. novIn pressMcLoughlin et al.Late Cretaceous (Santonian–early Campanian)A member of the family Micropeltidaceae.YongnictaGen. et sp. novIn pressTobias & Maslova in Xu et al.Late OligoceneYongning FormationA member of Ascomycota described on the basis of fungal fruiting bodies preserved on fossil tupelo endocarps. Genus includes new species Y. nyssae.
Research Exceptionally preserved specimens of Tawuia, providing new information on the anatomy of this organism, are described from the Tonian Liulaobei and Shiwangzhuang formations (China) by Tang et al. (2021), who interpret Tawuia as a coenocytic eukaryote, possibly a macroalga. Microfossils which may represent early terrestrial fungi are described from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (China) by Gan et al. (2021). A Rhynie chert fossil Mycokidstonia sphaerialoides, originally interpreted as an ascomycete, is reclassified as a member of Glomeromycota belonging to the family Ambisporaceae by Walker et al. (2021). Carboniferous organism Oochytrium lepidodendri, originally classified as a fungus, is reinterpreted as an oomycete by Strullu-Derrien et al. (2021). Probable fossils of multicellular eukaryotic macroalgae (possibly with a green algal affinity) are described from the Tonian Dolores Creek Formation in the Wernecke Mountains (Canada) by Maloney et al. (2021), who interpret these fossils as likely to be some of the few green algae and some of the largest macroscopic eukaryotes yet recognized in the early Neoproterozoic, indicating that eukaryotic algae colonized marine environments by the early Neoproterozoic. Fossil material of macroalgae, providing information on the early evolution of holdfast morphologies and attachment strategies of benthic macroalgae, is described from the Ediacaran Lantian biota and Miaohe biota (China) by Wang et al. (2021).
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