• DOI:10.3852/13-390
Corpus ID: 20013625

Affinities and architecture of Devonian trunks of Prototaxites loganii

@article{Retallack2014AffinitiesAA,
  title={Affinities and architecture of Devonian trunks of Prototaxites loganii},
  author={G. Retallack and E. Landing},
  journal={Mycologia},
  year={2014},
  volume={106},
  pages={1143 - 1158}
}

• G. Retallack, E. Landing
• Published 2014
• Biology, Medicine
• Mycologia

Devonian fossil logs of Prototaxites loganii have been considered kelp-like aquatic algae, rolled up carpets of liverworts, enormous saprophytic fungal fruiting bodies or giant lichens. Algae and rolled liverwort models cannot explain the proportions and branching described here of a complete fossil of Prototaxites loganii from the Middle Devonian (386 Ma) Bellvale Sandstone on Schunnemunk Mountain, eastern New York. The “Schunnemunk tree” was 8.83 m long and had six branches, each about 1 m… Expand

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