Periconia

Periconia
	Periconia glaucocephala
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Periconia; Tode Ex Fries, 1791
Species
	Many, including: Periconia circinata ; Periconia elegans ;
Synonyms
	Berkeleyna O. Kuntze, 1898 ; Harpocephalum ; Atkinson, 1897 ; Pachytrichum Sydow, 1925 ; Sporocybe ; Fries, 1825 ; Sporodum Corda, 1837 ; Trichocephalum ; Costantin, 1888 ;

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.

External links

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[1] Tode, Fungi Mecklenburgenses Selecti 2: 2 (1791)

[2] 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.

[TischerEtAl-3] 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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