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Fossil Fungi

  • Book

  • September 2014
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 2899465

Fungi are ubiquitous in the world and responsible for driving the evolution and governing the sustainability of ecosystems now and in the past. Fossil Fungi is the first encyclopedic book devoted exclusively to fossil fungi and their activities through geologic time. The book begins with the historical context of research on fossil fungi (paleomycology), followed by how fungi are formed and studied as fossils, and their age. The next six chapters focus on the major lineages of fungi, arranging them in phylogenetic order and placing the fossils within a systematic framework. For each fossil the age and provenance are provided.

Each chapter provides a detailed introduction to the living members of the group and a discussion of the fossils that are believed to belong in this group. The extensive bibliography (~ 2700 entries) includes papers on both extant and fossil fungi. Additional chapters include lichens, fungal spores, and the interactions of fungi with plants, animals, and the geosphere. The final chapter includes a discussion of fossil bacteria and other organisms that are fungal-like in appearance, and known from the fossil record. The book includes more than 475 illustrations, almost all in color, of fossil fungi, line drawings, and portraits of people, as well as a glossary of more than 700 mycological and paleontological terms that will be useful to both biologists and geoscientists.

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Table of Contents

Introduction HOW FUNGAL FOSSILS ARE FORMED AND STUDIED HOW OLD ARE THE FUNGI? CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA BLASTOCLADIOMYCOTA Classification of fungi ZYGOMYCETES GLOMEROMYCOTA ASCOMYCOTA BASIDIOMYCOTA LICHENS FUNGAL SPORES FUNGAL INTERACTIONS BACTERIA AND FUNGUS-LIKE ORGANISMS

Authors

Thomas N Taylor University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, KS USA. Michael Krings Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) , Munich, Germany and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany. Michael Krings is curator for fossil plants at the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) in Munich, Germany, and professor of plant paleobiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He also holds an affiliate faculty position in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. He received his PhD in botany from the University of Münster, Germany, and was an Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kansas. His research interests include Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic seed plants and the biology and ecology of microorganisms in late Paleozoic terrestrial ecosystems. Edith L. Taylor University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, KS USA.