401 / Mesozoic
Palaeoagaracites
Palaeoagaracites antiquus
A millimeter-scale cap and gills show agaric mushrooms in the dinosaur era.
View original image · 1600 × 1067- Time range
- About 99 million years ago
- Final stage
- Middle Cretaceous
- Geographic range
- Humid resin forest · Myanmar
01 / DEFINITION & ECOLOGY
What was Palaeoagaracites?
Palaeoagaracites (Palaeoagaracites antiquus) was an extinct organism known from About 99 million years ago, with a range in Humid resin forest · Myanmar.
Life and ecology
This tiny fruiting body rose briefly from forest organic matter to release spores.
02 / DISAPPEARANCE
Why did Palaeoagaracites disappear?
Forest and fungal-lineage turnover is possible context; a single amber specimen cannot show why the species disappeared.
03 / EVIDENCE
How do scientists know about Palaeoagaracites?
Amber preserves the cap, stem, gills and even a smaller parasitic fungus.
04 / SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Check the source record
Use the scientific name to compare taxonomy, occurrence records and the fossil record. Database coverage and classifications may differ.
05 / REVISION HISTORY
How has this record changed?
- Rewrote an extinction cause that presented environmental or faunal turnover as established; it is now given as context the record does not prove.
- Verified authoritative entity sources and added three responsive reconstruction sizes.
- Initial bilingual species record published.
06 / CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS