<Emphasis Type="Italic">Saccomorpha guttulata</Emphasis>: a new marine fungal microbioerosion trace fossil from cool- to cold-water settings |
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Authors: | Max Wisshak Neele Meyer Gudrun Radtke Stjepko Golubic |
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Institution: | 1.Marine Research Department,Senckenberg am Meer,Wilhelmshaven,Germany;2.Hessisches Landesamt für Naturschutz, Umwelt und Geologie (HLNUG),Wiesbaden,Germany;3.Department of Biology,Boston University,Boston,USA |
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Abstract: | Euendolithic marine fungi are ubiquitous bioeroders of calcareous skeletal substrates, even under the extreme environmental conditions of the polar regions. The new bioerosion trace fossil Saccomorpha guttulata isp. nov. is presumably produced by a marine fungus that is interpreted to be well adapted to low temperatures, based on the provenance of the studied fossil and recent material. Its trace may thus serve as indicator for cool- to cold-water (palaeo) environments. The microboring is diagnosed by a radiating and ramifying system of club-shaped segments that gradually widen from a thin filament into a distal node. Below the initial point of entry, a stalked central cavity of slightly larger dimension and depth of penetration is developed, from which several segments emerge. The segments are interpreted to reflect a regular temporal sequence in the formation of hyphal filaments that widen into sporangial cavities. While all Saccomorpha ichnospecies share this composition of presumed sporangial cavities and hyphal filaments, with a varying degree of segmentation and gradation between these two elements, different strategies with regards to the temporal pattern in the formation of the different functional elements have evolved. |
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