NAME Palaeomycites butleri
AGE Late Pleistocene.   AGE span: 0.781...0.0117 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Chytridiomycetes, Chytridiales; or: Zygomycetes, Endogonales; or: Oomycetes, Peronosporales.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Rosendahl CO. 1943. Some fossil fungi from Minnesota; Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, v. 70, p. 126-138.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY P. butleri (Rosendahl) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Bronson, southeastern Kittson County, Minnesota, USA.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Hyphae moderately tortuous, with numerous unilateral projections and occasional diverticula, pale yellow, 9-11 µm in diameter and uniform in thickness except where the branching occurs, stalks of the vesicles about the same diameter as the rest of the hyphae, vesicles chestnut-brown, oval to subspherical, varying in size from 75 x 79 to 103-124 µm, average size 89 x 98 µm, walls at the base of mature vesicles and walls of the neck of the stalks much thickened.
COMMENTS* The collections of this species from the Alberta bogs and Moorhead, Minnesota, are of Late Pleistocene origin, having apparently been deposited in the silt of glacial lakes fronting the last ice sheet during its recession.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Rosendahl CO. 1943. Some fossil fungi from Minnesota; Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, v. 70, p. 126-138.
K&J REMARKS
TYPE Rhizophagites butleri Rosendahl 1943, p. 131, fig. 2 [lectotype designated by Jansonius & Hills (1977), card no. 3197].
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Rhizophagites butleri Rosendahl 1943, p. 131, fig. 2.; Palaeomycites butleri
SERIAL NUMBER 1209
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.