406 / Cenozoic
Protomycena
Protomycena electra
Radial striations remained visible across a minute translucent cap.
View original image · 1600 × 1067- Time range
- About 20–15 million years ago
- Final stage
- Miocene
- Geographic range
- Caribbean humid forest · Dominican Republic
01 / DEFINITION & ECOLOGY
What was Protomycena?
Protomycena (Protomycena electra) was an extinct organism known from About 20–15 million years ago, with a range in Caribbean humid forest · Dominican Republic.
Life and ecology
This mycenoid mushroom decomposed wet wood or leaf litter.
02 / DISAPPEARANCE
Why did Protomycena disappear?
Miocene community turnover is possible context; a single amber specimen cannot show why the species disappeared.
03 / EVIDENCE
How do scientists know about Protomycena?
Amber preserves cap, gills and slender stem, but DNA and complete spores are absent.
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