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Windipila spinifera

Windipila spinifera M. Krings, C.J. Harper Neues Jahrb. Geol. Paläontol., Abh., 285(2): 204. Aug 2017
Name
Windipila spinifera
Rank
Species
Generic Name
[Genus] Windipila
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
Fossil Status
bodies
Stratigraphy
Pragian
Location
Windyfield chert site, ~700 m NE of original Rhynie chert site of Special Scientific Interest, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, U.K.
Paleoregion
Laurussia (Avalonia)
Data for Holotypus
Repository
Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany
Repository Number
Specimen in slide SNSB-BSPG 2016 VII 1
Diagnosis
Reproductive unit <150 μm in diameter (including investment but excluding projections); cavity wall distinct, appearing two-layered, up to 3.5 μm thick; mantle up to 15 μm thick, composed of one to four layers of thin-walled, translucent, tightly spaced and interlaced, sparsely septate hyphae; projections up to 50 μm long and 28 μm wide at base, consistently thin-walled, irregularly distributed over entire surface; no septa between projections and their parental, circumferential hyphae, but septa may be present in distal branches and processes extending from projections; projections in proximal region of reproductive unit entwining subtending hypha; subtending hyphae up to 8 μm in diameter, septate, giving off (narrower) branches, sheathed (at least in part) by tenuous hyphae.
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