Genus of fungi
Periconia is a genus of sac fungi in the order Pleosporales . Fossils of Periconia have been reported from 12 million year old rocks from central England[ 2] and from Baltic amber from Eocene epoch (34-38 Mya).[ 3]
References
^ Tode, Fungi Mecklenburgenses Selecti 2: 2 (1791)
^ Pound, Matthew J.; Nuñez Otaño, Noelia B.; Romero, Ingrid C.; Lim, Michael; Riding, James B.; O’Keefe, Jennifer M. K. (2022). "The fungal ecology of the Brassington Formation (Middle Miocene) of Derbyshire, United Kingdom, and a new method for palaeoclimate reconstruction" . Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 10 . doi :10.3389/fevo.2022.947623 . ISSN 2296-701X .
^ Tischer, Marta; Gorczak, Michał; Bojarski, Błażej; Pawłowska, Julia; Hoffeins, Christel; Hoffeins, Hans Werner; Wrzosek, Marta (2019). "New fossils of ascomycetous anamorphic fungi from Baltic amber". Fungal Biology . 123 (11): 804– 819. doi :10.1016/j.funbio.2019.08.003 .
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