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A Jurassic moss from Northeast China with preserved sporophytes

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A Putative Zygomycetous Fungus with Mantled Zygosporangia and Apposed Gametangia from the Lower Coal Measures (Carboniferous) of Great Britain

article published in 2013

A colony-forming microorganism with probable affinities to the Chroococcales (cyanobacteria) from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert

A fossil peronosporomycete oogonium with an unusual surface ornament from the Carboniferous of France

scientific article published on March 12, 2010

A fossil species of the enigmatic early polypod fern genus Cystodium (Cystodiaceae) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar

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A fungal reproductive unit from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) that demonstrates an unusual hyphal investment pattern

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A mantled fungal reproductive unit from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert that demonstrates Carboniferous "sporocarp" morphology and development

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A mantled fungal reproductive unit from the Lower Devonian Windyfield chert, Scotland, with prominent spines and otherwise shaped projections extending out from the mantle

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A microfossil resembling Merismopedia (Cyanobacteria) from the 410-million-yr-old Rhynie and Windyfield cherts – Rhyniococcus uniformis revisited

scientific article published in 2019

A microfossil with suggested affinities to the Peronosporomycetes (Oomycota) from the Carboniferous (c. 330 Ma) of France

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Acaulosporoid glomeromycotan spores with a germination shield from the 400-million-year-old Rhynie chert

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Addendum to the article “Lageniastrum macrosporae (fossil Volvocales, Lageniastraceae nov. fam.), an endophyte in megaspores from the Carboniferous of the French Massif Central”. Geobios 38 (2005): 451–465

scientific article published in 2005

Additional observations on the fungal reproductive unit Windipila spinifera from the Windyfield chert, and description of a similar form, Windipila pumila nov. sp., from the nearby Rhynie chert (Lower Devonian, Scotland)

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Alectorioid Morphologies in Paleogene Lichens: New Evidence and Re-Evaluation of the Fossil Alectoria succini Mägdefrau

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An alternative mode of early land plant colonization by putative endomycorrhizal fungi

scientific article (publication date: March 2007)

An enigmatic fossil fungus from the 410 Ma Rhynie chert that resembles Macrochytrium (Chytridiomycota) and Blastocladiella (Blastocladiomycota).

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An enigmatic non-marine thalloid organism from the Triassic of East Antarctica

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An unusual fossil microfungus with suggested affinities to the Chytridiomycota from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert

scientific article published in November 2014

Arbuscular mycorrhizal‐like fungi in Carboniferous arborescent lycopsids

scientific article published on May 9, 2011

Archaeosporites rhyniensis gen. et sp. nov. (Glomeromycota, Archaeosporaceae), from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert - a fungal lineage morphologically unchanged for more than 400 million years

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Chytrid-like microfungi in Biscalitheca cf. musata (Zygopteridales) from the Upper Pennsylvanian Grand-Croix cherts (Saint-Etienne Basin, France)

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Chytridiomycota

chapter in Fossil Fungi

Combresomyces cornifer gen. sp. nov., an endophytic peronosporomycete in Lepidodendron from the Carboniferous of central France

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Early Devonian (~410 mya) microfossils resembling Characiopsis (Tribophyceae) and Characium (Chlorophyceae).

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Enigmatic, Structurally Preserved Stems From the Triassic of Central Europe

Filamentous cyanobacteria preserved in masses of fungal hyphae from the Triassic of Antarctica

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Fossil evidence of eupolypod ferns in the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar

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Fossil fungi with suggested affinities to the Endogonaceae from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica

scientific article published on March 27, 2012

Fossil ginkgophyte seedlings from the Triassic of France resemble modern Ginkgo biloba

scientific article (publication date: 27 August 2013)

Frullania pinnata spec. nov. (Frullaniaceae, Porellales), a new leafy liverwort in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber from Myanmar

scholarly article by Jochen Heinrichs et al published October 2017 in Cretaceous Research

Fungal endophytes in a 400-million-yr-old land plant: infection pathways, spatial distribution, and host responses

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Fungal intruders of enigmatic propagule clusters occurring in microbial mats from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Fungal sporocarps from the Carboniferous: An unusual specimen of Traquairia

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Fungi and fungal interactions in the Rhynie chert: a review of the evidence, with the description of Perexiflasca tayloriana gen. et sp. nov.†.

scientific article published in February 2018

Fungi in a Psaronius root mantle from the Rotliegend (Asselian, Lower Permian/Cisuralian) of Thuringia, Germany

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Germination shields in Scutellospora (Glomeromycota: Diversisporales, Gigasporaceae) from the 400 million-year-old Rhynie chert

scientific article published in 2006

Hagenococcus aggregatus nov. gen. et sp., a microscopic, colony-forming alga from the 410-million-yr-old Rhynie chert

scientific article published in 2017

Hassiella monospora gen. et sp. nov., a microfungus from the 400 million year old Rhynie chert

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Heinrichsia cheilanthoides gen. et sp. nov., a fossil fern in the family Pteridaceae (Polypodiales) from the Cretaceous amber forests of Myanmar

scholarly article by Ledis Regalado et al published 20 May 2019 in Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Lageniastrum macrosporae (fossil Volvocales, Lageniastraceae nov. fam.), an endophyte in megaspores from the Carboniferous of the French Massif Central

scientific article published in July 2005

Macroflora and charophyte gyrogonites from the middle Miocene Gračanica deposits in central Bosnia and Herzegovina

scientific article published in 2018

Mariopterid pteridosperms, scrambling and climbing vines of the Late Carboniferous swamp forest: a case study from the Namurian B of Hagen-Vorhalle (Germany)

scientific article published in 2003

Microfungi from the upper Visean (Mississippian) of central France: Chytridiomycota and chytrid-like remains of uncertain affinity

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Molecular and Morphological Evidence Challenges the Records of the Extant Liverwort Ptilidium pulcherrimum in Eocene Baltic Amber

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Morphological and functional stasis in mycorrhizal root nodules as exhibited by a Triassic conifer

scientific article (publication date: 16 August 2011)

Morphological diversity of fungal reproductive units in the Lower Devonian Rhynie and Windyfield cherts, Scotland: a new species of the genus Windipila

scientific article published in 2019

Nimbosphaera Rothwellii Nov. Gen. et Sp., an Enigmatic Microfossil Enveloped in a Prominent Sheath from the Lower Devonian Windyfield Chert, Scotland

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Oldest fossil basidiomycete clamp connections

scientific article published in 2011

Organization, anatomy, and fungal endophytes of a Triassic conifer embryo

scientific article published on October 21, 2010

Paleomycology of the Princeton Chert I. Fossil hyphomycetes associated with the early Eocene aquatic angiosperm,Eorhiza arnoldii

scientific article published on December 11, 2012

Paleomycology of the Princeton Chert II. Dark-septate fungi in the aquatic angiosperm Eorhiza arnoldii indicate a diverse assemblage of root-colonizing fungi during the Eocene

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Problems related to the taxonomic placement of incompletely preserved amber fossils: transfer of the Paleogene liverwort <i>Cylindrocolea dimorpha</i> (Cephaloziellaceae) to the extant <i>Odontoschisma</i> sect. <i>Iwats

scientific article published in 2017

Protoascon missouriensis, a complex fossil microfungus revisited

scientific article published in May 2005

Publisher Correction: A fossil species of the enigmatic early polypod fern genus Cystodium (Cystodiaceae) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

Publisher Correction: A fossil species of the enigmatic early polypod fern genus Cystodium (Cystodiaceae) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar.

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Reconstruction of a bennettitalean flower from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Lunz, Lower Austria

scholarly article by Christian Pott et al published February 2010 in Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Reproductive Organs and In Situ Spores of Asteroxylon mackiei Kidston & Lang, the Most Complex Plant from the Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert

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Revision of the leafy liverwort genus Radula (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida) in Baltic and Bitterfeld amber

Rhizophydites matryoshkae gen. et sp. nov. (Fossil Chytridiomycota) on Spores of the Early Land Plant Horneophyton lignieri from the Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert

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Rhyniotaxillus minutulus n. sp., a pico-sized colonial cyanobacterium from the 410-million-yr-old Windyfield chert of Scotland

article by Michael Krings published 20 August 2021 in Nova Hedwigia

Selaginella in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar

scientific article published in 2022

Selaginella was hyperdiverse already in the Cretaceous

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Stigonema (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) in the Rhynie chert (Lower Devonian, Scotland)

article by Michael Krings published December 2021 in Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Structurally preserved fungi from Antarctica: diversity and interactions in late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic polar forest ecosystems

scientific article published in 2016

Structurally preserved polypores from the Neogene of North Africa: Ganodermites libycus gen. et sp. nov. (Polyporales, Ganodermataceae)

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Thalloid organisms and the fossil record: New perspectives from the Transantarctic Mountains

scientific article (publication date: March 2010)

The Early Devonian fungus Mycokidstonia sphaerialoides from the Rhynie chert is a member of the Ambisporaceae (Glomeromycota, Archaeosporales), not an ascomycete

The Enigmatic Paleozoic plants Spermopteris and Phasmatocycas reconsidered

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

The enigmatic Devonian fossil Prototaxites is not a rolled‐up liverwort mat: Comment on the paper by Graham et al. (AJB 97: 268–275)

scientific article published on June 8, 2010

The fossil record of the Peronosporomycetes (Oomycota)

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

Tyloses in fossil plants: New data from a Mississippian tree, with a review of previous records

scientific article published in 2022

An unusual specimen of the enigmatic fungal reproductive unit Windipila spinifera from the Lower Devonian Rhynie cherts of Scotland

scientific article published in 2022