Coprinites dominicana Poinar and Singer 1990 (gilled mushroom)

Agaricomycetes - Agaricales - Agaricaceae

Full reference: G. O. Poinar and R. Singer. 1990. Upper Eocene gilled mushroom from the Dominican Republic. Science 248:1099-1101

Belongs to Coprinites according to G. O. Poinar and R. Singer 1990

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Poinar AF-9-11. Its type locality is Dominican amber, La Toca mine (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the La Toca Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, La Toca mine (Poinar coll)

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