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Fossil Fungi
1st Edition - August 14, 2014
Authors: Thomas N Taylor, Michael Krings, Edith L. Taylor
Hardback ISBN:9780123877314
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eBook ISBN:9780123877543
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Fungi are ubiquitous in the world and responsible for driving the evolution and governing the sustainability of ecosystems now and in the past. Fossil Fungi is the first… Read more
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Fungi are ubiquitous in the world and responsible for driving the evolution and governing the sustainability of ecosystems now and in the past. Fossil Fungi is the first encyclopedic book devoted exclusively to fossil fungi and their activities through geologic time. The book begins with the historical context of research on fossil fungi (paleomycology), followed by how fungi are formed and studied as fossils, and their age. The next six chapters focus on the major lineages of fungi, arranging them in phylogenetic order and placing the fossils within a systematic framework. For each fossil the age and provenance are provided.
Each chapter provides a detailed introduction to the living members of the group and a discussion of the fossils that are believed to belong in this group. The extensive bibliography (~ 2700 entries) includes papers on both extant and fossil fungi. Additional chapters include lichens, fungal spores, and the interactions of fungi with plants, animals, and the geosphere. The final chapter includes a discussion of fossil bacteria and other organisms that are fungal-like in appearance, and known from the fossil record. The book includes more than 475 illustrations, almost all in color, of fossil fungi, line drawings, and portraits of people, as well as a glossary of more than 700 mycological and paleontological terms that will be useful to both biologists and geoscientists.
First book devoted to the whole spectrum of the fossil record of fungi, ranging from Proterozoic fossils to the role of fungi in rock weathering
Detailed discussion of how fossil fungi are preserved and studied
Extensive bibliography with more than 2000 entries
Where possible, fungal fossils are placed in a modern systematic context
Each chapter within the systematic treatment of fungal lineages introduced with an easy-to-understand presentation of the main characters that define extant members
Extensive glossary of more than 700 entries that define both biological, geological, and mycological terminology
Mycologists; paleobotanists; plant pathologists; paleobiologists; fungal biologists; sedimentologists; geologists; plant biologists; research scientists studying mycology as it relates to: biology, biochemistry, agricultural sciences, plant pathology, forestry, earth sciences, evolution, and the evolutionary history of fungi; advanced undergraduate/graduate students studying these areas.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction
Scope of this Volume
What is Paleomycology?
History of Paleomycology
Naming Fossil Fungi
2. How Fungal Fossils Are Formed and Studied
Preservation
3. How Old are the Fungi?
Phylogenetic Systematics
Molecular Clocks
Early Fossil Evidence
Fungi and the First Land Plants
Symbiosis: A Critical Component of Life
4. Chytridiomycota
Fossil Chytrids
Chytrid Summary
5. Blastocladiomycota
Fossil Blastocladiomycota
6. Zygomycetes
Precambrian Microfossils
Rhynie Chert
Zygosporangium-Gametangia Complexes and Sporocarps
Amber Fossils
Ichnotaxa
Conclusions: Zygomycetes
7. Glomeromycota
Biology of Glomeromycotan Fungi
Glomeromycotan Characters
Glomeromycotan Reproduction
Fossil Glomeromycota
8. Ascomycota
Geologic History of Ascomycota
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Ascomycetes
Fungal Endophytes and Epiphylls
9. Basidiomycota
Fossil Basidiomycetes
Agaricomycotina
Pucciniomycotina
Ustilaginomycotina
Ectomycorrhizae
10. Lichens
Thallus Morphology and Structure
Lichen Reproduction
Lichen Evolution
Precambrian Evidence of Lichens
Paleozoic Lichens
Mesozoic Lichens
Cenozoic Lichens
Fossils that Might Be Lichens
11. Fungal Spores
Naming Fungal Spores
Fungal Spores in Stratigraphy
Fungal Spores in Paleoecology
Fungal Spore Taxa
Other Fungal Spores and Structures
12. Fungal Interactions
Fungus–Animal Interactions
Fungi and Arthropods
Fungi in Eggs
Trace Fossils (Ichnofossils)
Fungus-Fungus Interactions
Fungus–Plant Interactions
Fungus–Geosphere Interactions
13. Bacteria and Fungus-Like Organisms
Bacteria
Actinomycetes
Mycetozoa
Peronosporomycetes
Peronosporomycetes: Conclusions
Glossary
References
Index
Chart
No. of pages: 398
Language: English
Published: August 14, 2014
Imprint: Academic Press
Hardback ISBN: 9780123877314
eBook ISBN: 9780123877543
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Thomas N Taylor
Affiliations and expertise
University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, KS USA
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Michael Krings
Michael Krings is curator for fossil plants at the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) in Munich, Germany, and professor of plant paleobiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He also holds an affiliate faculty position in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. He received his PhD in botany from the University of Münster, Germany, and was an Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kansas. His research interests include Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic seed plants and the biology and ecology of microorganisms in late Paleozoic terrestrial ecosystems.
Affiliations and expertise
Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) , Munich, Germany and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Edith L. Taylor
Affiliations and expertise
University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, KS USA