Stemonitis species Burmese amber Fig2

Description:

Description: English: Fossil Stemonitis in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. (a) General habitus of sporocarps. (b) Surface of sporotheca, showing details of capillitium. (c) Base of sporotheca, showing stalk continuing as a columella into the sporotheca. (d) Detached spores. Scale bars 200 µm in (a). 20 µm in (b), 10 µm in (c), and 5 µm in (d). Date: 24 December 2019. Source: Rikkinen, J.; Grimaldi, D. A.; & Schmidt, A. R. (2019). "Morphological stasis in the first myxomycete from the Mesozoic, and the likely role of cryptobiosis". Scientific Reports 9 (1): 19730. DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-55622-9. PMID 31874965. PMC: 6930221. ISSN 2045-2322. Author: Rikkinen, Grimaldi, & Schmidt, 2019.