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Paleoplastes
Genus Paleoplastes Poinar, F.E. Vega Historical Biol., 2021, 33(5): 712. 23 Aug 2019
- Name
- Paleoplastes
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Poinar G. O.
Vega F. E.
- Publication
- Mid-Cretaceous cellular slime mold (Eukarya: Dictyostelia?) in Burmese amber [2019/8]
- Journal
- Historical biology
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2021
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 5
- Page number
- 712
- Year
- 2019
- Parent Taxon
- [Phylum] Dictyosteliomycota
- Fossil Status
- thallus
- Type
- Paleoplastes burmanica
- Diagnosis
- Plasmodium composed of a protoplast containing a central reddish pseudoplasmodium with an aggregation of myxamoebae. At one end of the pseudoplasmodium are sorocarps bearing small, roundish spores, some of which are in short chains.
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