Windipila spinifera

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

Num

Figs. 1E-H (different focal planes), 2A-C, 3

Pub.

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]

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.