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Archaeomarasmius leggetti
“ You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom. ”
– Janet Erskine Stuart
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: †Archaeomarasmius
Species: †Archaeomarasmius leggetti
Descendant: shrooms
Named by: David Hibbett, Michael Donoghue, David Grimaldi
Year Published: 1997
Size: smaller
Lifespan: 40 years
Season Availability: Summer 🌞?
Activity: Cathemeral 🌅🌃
Type:
Fungi
Agaricomycetes
Title(s):
Late Cretaceous Mushroom
Other Name(s)/Alias(es):
none
Pantheon:
Terran/Gaian 🇺🇳
Time Period: Late Cretaceous
Alignment: Passive
Threat Level: ★
Diet:
Omnivorous 🥩🌿
Filter Feeder 🦠
Elements: Leaf 🌿
Inflicts: none
Weaknesses: none
Casualties:
none
Based On:
none
Conservation Status: Extinct (EX) – IUCN Red List
Archaeomarasmius is an extinct genus of gilled fungus in the Agaricales family Tricholomataceae, containing the single species Archaeomarasmius leggetti.
The generic epithet Archaeomarasmius is a combination of the Greek archaeo- meaning "ancient" and "Marasmius", a modern genus which it resembles. The specific epithet "leggetti" was coined by the authors in honor of J.J. Leggett and company, who first discovered the amber nodule and donated it to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).
Archaeomarasmius is known from two fruit bodies recovered from amber, one consisting of a complete cap with a broken stem, the other consisting of a fragment of a cap. The cap has a diameter ranging from 3.2 to 6 mm (0.13 to 0.24 in), while the stem is 0.5 mm (0.02 in) thick. Spores were also recovered from the amber, and are broadly ellipsoid to egg-shaped, measuring roughly 7.3 by 4.7 μm.
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Archaeomarasmius, which resembles the extant genera Marasmius and Marasmiellus, is inferred to have been saprobic on plant litter or other forest debris.
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Archaeomarasmius is solely known from the New Jersey amber deposits along the Atlantic coastal plain in New Jersey, United States, which date from the Turonian stage (about 90–94 Mya) of the Upper Cretaceous.
Movement Pattern: Not a Migrant
Individual Type: Random
Population Trend: Stable
Population: none
Locomotion: Terrestrial
Habitat: Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests; Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests.
Medicine: human & veterinary
Local: ✔, National: ✔, International: ✘
Food:
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Earth:
Extinct: Canada; United States
Berbania/Hirawhassa:
Extant: none
Reinachos/Ityosel:
Extant: none
Thatrollwa/Delphia:
Extant: none
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Terran/Gaian
n/a
Berbanian/Hirawhassan
n/a
Reinachos/Ityoselese
n/a
Delphian/Thatrollwan
n/a
Sawintiran
n/a
Jotunheim
n/a
Terran/Gaian
n/a
Berbanian/Hirawhassan
n/a
Reinachos/Ityoselese
n/a
Delphian/Thatrollwan
n/a
Sawintiran
n/a
Jotunheim
n/a
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See also: none
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The first ever drawing a fungus in this century.