Fungi

A fungus is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes yeasts, molds, and mushrooms. These organisms are classified in the biological kingdom Fungi.

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BorgQueen · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HolomycotaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 719 million years on record.

The record covers at least 720 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1000 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 450 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 450 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 450 occurrencesDevonian — about 6 of 450 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 450 occurrencesPermian — about 12 of 450 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 450 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 450 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 450 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 450 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 450 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 450 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 450 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 67 of 450 occurrencesPaleocene — about 17 of 450 occurrencesEocene — about 244 of 450 occurrencesOligocene — about 12 of 450 occurrencesMiocene — about 37 of 450 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 450 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 450 occurrences1020–986 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences986–952 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences952–918 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences918–884 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences884–850 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences850–816 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences816–782 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences782–748 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences748–714 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences714–680 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences680–646 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences646–612 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences612–578 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences578–544 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences544–510 Mya — about 3 occurrences510–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–408 Mya — about 5 occurrences408–374 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences306–272 Mya — about 7 occurrences272–238 Mya — about 6 occurrences238–204 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–136 Mya — about 6 occurrences136–102 Mya — about 10 occurrences102–68 Mya — about 60 occurrences68–34 Mya — about 268 occurrences34–0 Mya — about 77 occurrences720 Mya11.7 ka1020 Mya0 Mya

450 occurrences of Fungi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

450 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

56 formations

Deccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EHalf Three Point — 62.23°S, 58.98°WHalf Three Point — 62.15°S, 58.73°WRío Turbio — 51.60°S, 72.30°WHuitrera — 40.67°S, 71.08°WHuitrera — 41.04°S, 71.20°WNeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°EZarga-Ghazal — 9.35°N, 29.13°EPalana — 27.84°N, 73.26°ELumbrera — 25.80°S, 65.23°WPuntudo Chico - La Colonia — 43.01°S, 66.47°WDryden Flags — 57.34°N, 2.85°WForteau — 51.56°N, 56.75°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 6.58°S, 76.28°WNaera — 24.00°N, 71.50°ENaera — 22.92°N, 69.68°EWarkalli — 8.74°N, 76.70°EKamthi — 23.80°N, 86.10°EKamthi — 20.51°N, 78.97°EGarazhovka — 49.00°N, 38.00°ENesterov Suite — 50.10°N, 24.30°ELameta — 20.35°N, 79.05°ELa Postrera — 38.17°S, 58.77°WRio Turbio — 51.60°S, 72.30°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.05°WDunstan — 45.48°S, 169.31°EBaraka — 9.35°N, 29.13°EBentiu — 9.35°N, 29.13°E

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The named rock units Fungi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 257 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fungi and its relatives

Eocene

Where Fungi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 151 sites for Fungi, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

80 references

Each of the 450 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. 68 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 Fungi

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No 3D scan of Fungi 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

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

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What may have been alongside itHolomycota through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jahn and Jahn 1959)