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First Record of Fungus of the Family Mycocaliciaceae in Rovno Amber (Ukraine)

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Chaenothecopsis polissica V.P. Heluta et Sukhomlyn, sp. nov. (Mycocaliciales, Ascomycota) from late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine) is described. In the shape of fruit bodies and morphology of mycelium, the new species is similar to late Eocene C. bitterfeldensis, although ascomata of C. polissica sp. nov. are significantly smaller. Among the extant calicioid species of fungi and lichens, C. marcineae is the closest species to C. polissica, according to fruit body shape and size. The former species is reported to grow on spruce resin from boreal North America (Canada and United States) and Europe (Finland). C. polissica sp. nov. represents the smallest-fruited species of resinicolous calicioids and is the second record of fossil fungi in Rovno amber.

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The authors thank A.P. Vlaskin (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) for the help in this study, as well as the reviewers for their valuable comments.

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  1. Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 03143, Kiev, Ukraine

    M. M. Sukhomlyn

  2. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 01004, Kiev, Ukraine

    V. P. Heluta

  3. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 01030, Kiev, Ukraine

    E. E. Perkovsky

  4. Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    M. S. Ignatov

  5. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, 127276, Moscow, Russia

    M. S. Ignatov

  6. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647, Moscow, Russia

    D. V. Vasilenko

  7. Cherepovets State University, 162602, Cherepovets, Russia

    D. V. Vasilenko

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Sukhomlyn, M.M., Heluta, V.P., Perkovsky, E.E. et al. First Record of Fungus of the Family Mycocaliciaceae in Rovno Amber (Ukraine). Paleontol. J. 55, 684–690 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121060125

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