Agaricales

The Agaricales are an order of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. As originally conceived, the order contained all the agarics, but subsequent research has shown that not all agarics are closely related and some belong in other orders, such as the Russulales and Boletales. Conversely, DNA research has also shown that many non-agarics, including some of the clavarioid fungi and gasteroid fungi belong within the Agaricales. The order has 46 extant families, more than 400 genera, and over 25,000 described species, along with six extinct genera known only from the fossil record. Species in the Agaricales range from the familiar Agaricus bisporus and the deadly Amanita virosa to the coral-like Clavaria zollingeri and bracket-like Fistulina hepatica.

Agaricales

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
gilled mushroomPBDB
Sits inside
AgaricomycetesPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesMiocene122–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113.2 Mya20.45 Mya122 Mya12 Mya

14 occurrences of Agaricales on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

14 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

4 formations

La Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WRaritan — 40.43°N, 74.33°WYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°W

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The named rock units Agaricales has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Agaricales and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

818 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Agaricales, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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. 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 Agaricales

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Agaricales was found in Sketchfab.

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAgaricomycetes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Underwood 1899