570 vanished lives

401Mesozoic

A millimeter-scale cap and gills show agaric mushrooms in the dinosaur era.

402Mesozoic

A slender stem and tiny cap already resembled marasmioid mushrooms.

403Mesozoic

A mineralized cap brings early agaric evidence to the southern continents.

407Mesozoic

Hyphae surrounding a scale insect preserve a tiny Cretaceous association.

408Mesozoic

Simple club-shaped fruiting bodies show non-gilled fungi in Cretaceous forests.

417Mesozoic

Pink calcified masses were long assigned to red algae, but their identity is being reassessed.