Aureofungus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Aureofungus Hibbett et al. |
Species: | †A. yaniguaensis
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Binomial name | |
†Aureofungus yaniguaensis Hibbett et al.
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Aureofungus is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the order Agaricales.[1] At present it contains the single species Aureofungus yaniguaensis.
The genus is solely known from the early Miocene, Burdigalian stage, Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.[1][2] Aureofungus is one of only four known agarics fungus species known in the fossil record and the third to be described from Dominican amber.[1]