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The oldest fossil myxogastroid slime mould
Heinrich Dörfelt1, Alexander R Schmidt, Peter Ullmann
1Institut für Okologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, D-07743 Jena, Germany. heinrich.doerfelt@uni-jena.de
Mycological Research
|May 9, 2003
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.