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''Mycetophagites'' is an extinct fungal genus of mycoparasitic in the order Hypocreales. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species ''Mycetophagites atrebora''. The genus is solely known from the Lower Cretaceous, Upper Albian stage (about 100 Ma), Burmese amber deposits in Myanmar.〔 ''Mycetophagites'' is one of only two known instances of hyperfungal species known in the fossil record, and is the oldest to be described.〔 ==History and classification== The genus is known only from the single holotype, number "''AB-368''", hyphae parasitizing a single partial fruiting body specimen. When described the mushroom is part of in the private collection of Ron Buckley of Florence, Kentucky, USA.〔 The collection has been sold and is now owned by Deniz Erin of Istanbul, Turkey.〔(Fossil page of Ron Buckley ) accessed on 7 December 2010〕 ''AB-368'' was collected from one of the amber mines in the Hukawng Valley area southwest of Maingkhwan, Kachin Region, Northern Myanmar.〔 It was first studied by a pair of researchers led by Dr George Poinar from Oregon State University who worked with Ron Buckley. Poinar and Buckley published their 2007 type description in ''Mycological Research'', journal of The British Mycological Society.〔 The genus has been assigned the MycoBank number ''MB510323'', with the species being assigned number ''MB510324''.〔 The generic epithet ''Mycetophagites'' is Greek in derivation and is a combination of the words ''myketos'' meaning "fungus" and ''phagein'' which means "to eat" referencing the mycoparasitic nature of the species.〔 When published, ''Mycetophagites atrebora'' was the first known instance of hyperparasitism on mycoparasitism to be described in the fossil record, and the oldest. The fossil shows that this type of fungal parasitic relationship had been established by the Albian, 100 million years ago.〔 An earlier instance of mycoparasitism is known from the extinct species ''Palaeoserenomyces allenbyensis'' and ''Cryptodidymosphaerites princetonensis'' described in 1998 from cherts found in British Columbia, Canada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mycetophagites」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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