Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Mucoromyceta
Divisio: Mucoromycota
Subdivisio: Mucoromycotina
Classis: Endogonomycetes
Ordo: Endogonales
Familia: Endogonaceae
Genus: Jimwhitea
Species: J. circumtecta

Name

Jimwhitea M. Krings & T.N. Taylor, 2012

Holotype: Fossil specimen deposited in the Paleobotany Division, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Collection locality: Fremouw Peak, Queen Alexandra Range of the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica (84°17′41″S, 164°21′48″E).

Stratigraphic position: Fremouw Formation, Beacon Supergroup.

Age: Middle Triassic.

References

• Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Dotzler, N. & Persichini, G. 2012. Fossil fungi with suggested affinities to the Endogonaceae from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica. Mycologia 104(4): 835–844. DOI: 10.3852/11-384