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Science 1 June 1990:
Vol. 248. no. 4959, pp. 1099 - 1101
DOI: 10.1126/science.248.4959.1099
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Upper Eocene Gilled Mushroom from the Dominican Republic

George O. Poinar Jr. 1 and Rolf Singer 2

1 Department of Entomological Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
2 Department of Botany, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605

Coprinites dominicana gen.nov., spec.nov. (Coprinaceae) found in amber from the Dominican Republic is the earliest known gilled mushroom, the first fossil fleshy agaric determinable, and the only kiiown fossil "mushroom" (Agaricales) from the tropics. This find is of significance with respect to the evolutionary development of the Basidiomycetes. Because the appearance of this fossil is quite modern, it suggests that mushrooms as a group probably arose much earlier than the early to mid-Tertiary.


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