NAME Palaeomycites minnesotensis
AGE Early Pleistocene.   AGE span: 2.588...0.781 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. minnesotensis (Rosendahl) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Springfield, Minnesota, USA.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Hyphae very tortuous and with few unilateral projections, yellowish brown, uneven in thickness, varying from 6.2 to 20.7 µm in diameter, stalks of the vesicles thin and mostly elongated, vesicles dark brown, short pyriform to nearly spherical, varying in size from 42 x 46 to 68 x 61 µm, average size 48 x 53 µm, walls of mature vesicles not perceptibly thicker at the base.
COMMENTS* The collection of this species is referable to Early Pleistocene, being obtained from dense peat on the contact line between Cretaceous shale and Nebraskan till at Springfield, Minnesota.
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 minnesotensis Rosendahl 1943, p. 131, fig. 5 [lectotype selected by Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000].
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Rhizophagites minnesotensis Rosendahl 1943, p. 131, fig. 5.; Palaeomycites minnesotensis
SERIAL NUMBER 1218
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.