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Windipila
Genus Windipila M. Krings, C.J. Harper Neues Jahrb. Geol. Paläontol., Abh., 285(2): 204. Aug 2017
- Name
- Windipila
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Krings M.
Harper C. J.
- Publication
- A mantled fungal reproductive unit from the Lower Devonian Windyfield chert, Scotland, with prominent spines and otherwise shaped projections extending out from the mantle [2017/8]
- Journal
- Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen
- Volume
- 285
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 204
- Year
- 2017
- Parent Taxon
- [Regnum] Fungi
- Fossil Status
- bodies
- Type
- Windipila spinifera
- Diagnosis
- Fungal reproductive unit composed of central
cavity bounded by wall and enveloped in hyphal investment
or mantle; mantle constructed of interlaced hyphae extending
along circumference of structure; emerging from mantle are
prominent projections, which develop as terminal swellings
and lateral outgrowths (or branches) of circumferential mantle
hyphae; projections mostly coni or spines, but wart-like,
spheroidal, inverted pyriform, blunt, and (elongate) columnlike
morphologies may occur as well; some projections with
one or two narrow, lateral branches or distal processes (prolongations);
reproductive unit borne terminally on tubular
hypha.
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