title: New fungal cephalothecoid-like fructifications from central European Neogene deposits.
abstract: Fragments of cephalothecoid fructifications (peridia) were encountered during palynological investigations of Neogene deposits in Mizerna-Nowa/Poland and Adendorf/Germany. Isolated plates of cephalothecoid ascoma in shape and cellular structure similar to the extant members of the family Cephalothecaceae are described as Cephalothecoidomyces neogenicus fossil gen. et sp. nov. while remnants of fungal sporocarps with cephalothecoid walls with indistinct lines of dehiscence, similar in structure to peridia with cephalothecoid morphology of extant representatives the family Chaetomiaceae (mainly genus Chaetomidium) are assigned to Adendorfia miocenica fossil gen. et sp. nov. We also propose a new interpretation of some previously described fossil fungal taxa that we consider to be remnants of cephalothecoid ascomata.
authors.affiliation: W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, PL-31-512 Kraków, Poland. Electronic address: g.worobiec@botany.pl.
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Worobiec
authors.affiliation: Forschungsstelle für Paläobotanik, University of Münster, Heisenbergstrasse 2, D-48149 Münster, Germany. Electronic address: fneum_01@uni-muenster.de.
authors.forename: Frank Harald
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Neumann
authors.affiliation: W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, PL-31-512 Kraków, Poland. Electronic address: e.worobiec@botany.pl.
authors.forename: Elżbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Worobiec
authors.affiliation: Forschungsstelle für Paläobotanik, University of Münster, Heisenbergstrasse 2, D-48149 Münster, Germany. Electronic address: verena.nitz@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Verena
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nitz
authors.affiliation: Geological Survey North Rhine-Westphalia, De-Greiff-Str. 195, D-47803 Krefeld, Germany. Electronic address: hartkopf-froeder@gd.nrw.de.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hartkopf-Fröder
mesh_terms: D005580:Fossils / Q000382:microbiology*; D005858:Germany; D008853:Microscopy; D011044:Poland; D020037:Sordariales / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology / Q000302:isolation & purification*
keywords: Cenozoic; Cephalothecaceae; Chaetomiaceae; Fossil cephalothecoid fructifications; Germany; Poland