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Article: Trichothyriaceous fungi from the early Tertiary of southern England

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 23
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 1980
Page(s): 205 212
Author(s): Peter H. Smith
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SMITH, P. H. 1980. Trichothyriaceous fungi from the early Tertiary of southern England. Palaeontology23, 1, 205–212.

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Abstract

Isolated ascocarps (thyriothecia) from Upper Eocene deposits of the Hampshire Basin are described as a new species of the genus Trichothyrites Rosendahl within the Trichothyriaceae, a family of epiphyllous fungi not previously recorded from English Tertiary deposits. Comparisons are made between the fossil material and the extant genus Trichothyrina Petrak to establish their affinity. Earlier records of epiphyllous fossil fungi from British deposits are reconsidered in view of recent taxonomic changes in living taxa.
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