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Study of Indian Fossil Fungi: An Odyssey

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Progress of studies on Indian fossil fungi is synthesized. Diagnostic characters and occurrences of the selected fossil fungi reported from India are provided. Most of these forms have been reported from Cretaceous to Miocene sediments of India. Due to space constraints some genera established from other countries but reported to occur in Indian sediments have been omitted. Fungal remains included in the chapter belong to fossil fungal spores, chlamydospores, ascocarps, parasitic fungi, mycorrhizal fungi and Ingoldian aquatic fungi. Stratigraphic and palaeoclimatic implications of fossil fungal remains have been discussed.

S. K. M. Tripathi, Tripathi wrote this chapter while at Bilbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Tripathi, S.K.M. (2021). Study of Indian Fossil Fungi: An Odyssey. In: Satyanarayana, T., Deshmukh, S.K., Deshpande, M.V. (eds) Progress in Mycology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2350-9_4

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