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The oldest fossil myxogastroid slime mould

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2003

Heinrich DÖRFELT ,
Alexander R. SCHMIDT ,
Peter ULLMANN  and
Jörg WUNDERLICH
Heinrich DÖRFELT
Affiliation:
Institut für Ökologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, D-07743 Jena, Germany. E-mail: heinrich.doerfelt@uni-jena.de
Alexander R. SCHMIDT
Affiliation:
Institut für Ökologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, D-07743 Jena, Germany. E-mail: heinrich.doerfelt@uni-jena.de
Peter ULLMANN
Affiliation:
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, Tatzendpromenade 1a, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
Jörg WUNDERLICH
Affiliation:
Hindenburgstr. 94, D-75334 Straubenhardt, Germany.
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Abstract

A piece of Baltic amber (Tertiary, Eocene) contains a sporocarp of a slime mould which is assigned to the recent genus Arcyria and described as A. sulcata sp. nov. Apart from a fossil stemonitoid myxomycete, there are no further unambiguous fossil records of slime moulds and therefore the fossil gives new insights into the evolutionary history of the Myxomycetes.

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Research Article
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Mycological Research , Volume 107 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 123 - 126
Copyright
© The British Mycological Society 2003

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