- long-awaited
paper which attempted to put
Prototaxites in its place. The
paper deduced,
based on its morphology, that
Prototaxites was a fungus. This idea was received...
-
largest land
organism at the
beginning of this
period was the
enigmatic Prototaxites,
which was
possibly the
fruiting body of an
enormous fungus,
rolled liverwort...
- land
flora likely consisted of only non-vascular bryophyte-like plants.
Prototaxites,
which was
probably a
fungus or lichen,
would have been the
tallest organism...
- has been
demonstrated that Silurian-Devonian
fossils Nematothallus and
Prototaxites were lichenized. Thus
lichenized Ascomycota and
Basidiomycota were a...
-
underestimated Glomeromycota abundance due to
amplification biases.
Prototaxites Cavalier-Smith, T. (1998). "A
revised six-kingdom
system of Life". Biol...
- (2012). "Evidence for a
fungal affinity for Nematasketum, a
close ally of
Prototaxites".
Botanical Journal of the
Linnean Society. 168 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1111/j...
-
proven to be
inorganic rather than true fossils. The
Devonian megafossil Prototaxites,
which consists of m****es of
filaments grouped into trunk-like axes,...
- Palmgren, Kristoffer; Krüger, Ashley; Ivarsson,
Magnus (2023-01-01). "
Prototaxites reinterpreted as mega-rhizomorphs,
facilitating nutrient transport in...
- wood.
These are the
oldest known trees of the world's
first forests.
Prototaxites was the
fruiting body of an
enormous fungus that
stood more than 8 meters...
- bryophyte-like plants; but
these have been
dismissed as contamination.
Prototaxites,
which was
probably a
fungus or lichen,
would have been the
tallest organism...
