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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.