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Margaretbarromyces
''Margaretbarromyces'' is an extinct monotypic genus of pleosporale fungus of uncertain family placement. At present it contains the single species ''Margaretbarromyces dictyosporus''. The genus is solely known from the Eocene aged, Appian Way deposits on Vancouver Island. ''Margaretbarromyces'' is one of only three known fossil fungus species found on Vancouver Island and the most recent to be described from the Appian Way strata. The agaricomycete '' Quatsinoporites cranhamii'' was described from a Cretaceous fossil and '' Appianoporites vancouverensis'', from the same deposits as ''Margaretbarromyces'' were jointly described in a 2004 research paper. History and classification The genus ''Margaretbarromyces'' is known only from the single holotype, a complete ascoma like fungus fruiting body. The specimen, AW 400 Htop 0-12, is currently residing in the paleobotanical collections housed by the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The specimen was collected south o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appianoporites
''Appianoporites'' is an extinct monotypic genus of fungus in the Agaricomycetes family Hymenochaetaceae. At present it contains the single species ''Appianoporites vancouverensis''. The genus is solely known from the Eocene Appian Way deposits on Vancouver Island. ''Appianoporites'', the first fossil fungus species to be described from the Appian Way strata, is one of only three found on Vancouver Island, British Columbia: the agaricomycete ''Quatsinoporites, Quatsinoporites cranhamii'' was described from a Cretaceous fossil at the same time as ''Appianoporites'', while a third fungus, ''Margaretbarromyces, Margaretbarromyces dictyosporus'' was described three years later. __TOC__ History and classification The genus is known only from the single holotype, a partial bracket fungus fruiting body, or Bracket fungus, conk. The specimen, AW 104 D top, is currently residing in the collections housed by the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria. The spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quatsinoporites
''Quatsinoporites'' is an extinct monotypic genus of Agaricomycetes, agaricomycet fungus in the Agaricomycetes family Hymenochaetaceae. At present it contains the single species ''Quatsinoporites cranhamii''. The genus is solely known from the Barremian aged, Apple Bay deposits of northwestern Vancouver Island. ''Quatsinoporites'' is one of only three known fossil fungus species found on Vancouver Island and the only to be described from the Apple Bay strata. The agaricomycete ''Appianoporites, Appianoporites vancouverensis'' was described from an Eocene fossil at the same time as ''Quatsinoporites '', while a third fungus, ''Margaretbarromyces, Margaretbarromyces dictyosporus'' was described three years later. __TOC__ History and classification The genus is known only from the single holotype, a partial bracket fungus fruiting body, or "Bracket fungus, conk." The specimen, P13021 E, is currently residing in the paleobotany, paleobotanical collections housed by the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleosporales
The Pleosporales is the largest order in the fungal class Dothideomycetes. By a 2008 estimate it contains 23 families, 332 genera and more than 4700 species. The majority of species are saprobes on decaying plant material in fresh water, marine, or terrestrial environments, but several species are also associated with living plants as parasites, epiphytes or endophytes. The best studied species cause plant diseases on important agricultural crops e.g. ''Cochliobolus heterostrophus'', causing southern corn leaf blight on maize, ''Phaeosphaeria nodorum'' (''Stagonospora nodorum'') causing glume blotch on wheat and ''Leptosphaeria maculans'' causing a stem canker (called blackleg) on cabbage crops (''Brassica''). Some species of Pleosporales occur on animal dung and a small number occur as lichens and rock-inhabiting fungi. Taxonomy The order was proposed in 1955 as Dothideomycetes with perithecioid ascomata with pseudoparaphyses amongst the asci, at which time there were sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow
Margaret Elizabeth Barr Bigelow (1923-2008) was a Canadian mycologist known for her contributions to the Ascomycetes fungi. Biography She was born on April 16, 1923 in Elkhorn, Manitoba. She studied at the University of British Columbia, receiving her bachelor's degree in 1950 and her Master's in 1952. She went on to study under Lewis E. Wehmeyer at the University of Michigan, and received her doctorate in 1956 for her work on "The taxonomic position of the genus '' Mycosphaerella'' as shown by comparative developmental studies". After receiving her PhD, Barr-Bigelow and her husband, fellow mycologist Howard E. Bigelow, spent several months collecting fungi in Maine while searching for a teaching position. Soon after, Barr took a position at the Botanical Institute at the University of Montreal as a National Research Council fellow. In 1957, the married mycologists traveled to the University of Massachusetts, where Howard Bigelow took a teaching position, but Margaret was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randal A
Randal may refer to: People ;Given name * Randal and Randall (given names), English-language masculine given names. * Randal Gaines, American politician *Rand Paul Randal Howard Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American physician and politician serving as the junior U.S. senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is a son of former three-time presidential candidate and 12 ..., United States Senator ;Surname * Allison Randal, a linguist, software developer and author. * Ariane Randal, a French journalist * Hakon Randal, (born 1930), a Norwegian politician. Fictional people/characters * Randal Graves, character in Kevin Smith's ''Clerks'' and ''Clerks II''. *Randal Ivory, the titular protagonist of ''Randal’s Friends'', or ''RANFREN'' for short Places * Randal, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran * Randal Tyson Track Center, a 5,500-seat indoor track in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA * Randal, a hamlet of le Vrétot, a French commune in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver Island Paleontology Museum
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 54.5 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups. It has been consistently rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
