Periconia

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Periconia
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Periconia glaucocephala
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Periconia
Tode Ex Fries, 1791 [1]
Species
Many, including:
Synonyms

Periconia is a genus of sac fungi in the order Pleosporales. Fossils of Periconia have been reported from 12 million year old rocks from central England [2] and from Baltic amber from Eocene epoch (34-38 Mya). [3]

References

  1. ↑ Tode, Fungi Mecklenburgenses Selecti 2: 2 (1791)
  2. ↑ Pound, Matthew J.; Nuñez Otaño, Noelia B.; Romero, Ingrid C.; Lim, Michael; Riding, James B.; O’Keefe, Jennifer M. K. (2022). "The fungal ecology of the Brassington Formation (Middle Miocene) of Derbyshire, United Kingdom, and a new method for palaeoclimate reconstruction". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.947623 . ISSN   2296-701X.
  3. ↑ Tischer, Marta; Gorczak, Michał; Bojarski, Błażej; Pawłowska, Julia; Hoffeins, Christel; Hoffeins, Hans Werner; Wrzosek, Marta (2019). "New fossils of ascomycetous anamorphic fungi from Baltic amber". Fungal Biology . 123 (11): 804–819. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2019.08.003.


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