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} }
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… CONTINUE READING
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