Ascomycota

The Ascomycota are a phylum in the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, form the subkingdom Dikarya. Members of Ascomycota are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The defining feature of this fungal group is the ascus, a microscopic sexual structure in which nonmotile spores, called ascospores, are formed. However, some species of Ascomycota are asexual and thus do not form asci or ascospores. Familiar examples of sac fungi include morels, truffles, brewers' and bakers' yeast, dead man's fingers, and cup fungi. The fungal symbionts in the majority of lichens such as Cladonia belong to the Ascomycota.

Ascomycota

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DikaryaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 254 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 72 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 72 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 27 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 72 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 72 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 72 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–133 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences133–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–71 Mya — about 6 occurrences71–62 Mya — about 12 occurrences62–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–8.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences8.8–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences254.14 Mya11.7 ka265 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Ascomycota on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

72 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

21 formations

Zarga-Ghazal — 9.35°N, 29.13°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EPuntudo Chico - La Colonia — 43.01°S, 66.47°WRío Turbio — 51.60°S, 72.30°WLameta — 20.35°N, 79.05°EHuitrera — 40.67°S, 71.08°WHuitrera — 41.04°S, 71.20°WDunstan — 45.48°S, 169.31°EBaraka — 9.35°N, 29.13°EPalana — 27.84°N, 73.26°EWarkalli — 8.74°N, 76.70°ELopez de Bertodano — 63.88°S, 57.60°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WToba — 31.30°N, 97.70°ERintoul Creek — 38.12°S, 146.50°EPomahaka — 46.01°S, 169.24°EAradeiba — 9.35°N, 29.13°EBentiu — 9.35°N, 29.13°EMcBean — 33.45°N, 82.20°WKimin — 27.11°N, 93.66°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°ELaki — 23.53°N, 68.95°E

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The named rock units Ascomycota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ascomycota and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ascomycota and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,762 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Ascomycota, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

31 references

Each of the 72 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 19 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ascomycota

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nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ascomycota was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittaker 1959