Coprinites Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Agaricaceae |
Genus: | †Coprinites Poinar & Singer, 1990 |
Species: | †C. dominicana
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Binomial name | |
†Coprinites dominicana Poinar & Singer, 1990
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Coprinites is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the Agaricales family Agaricaceae.[1][2] At present it contains the single species Coprinites dominicana.
The genus is solely known from the early Miocene, Burdigalian stage, Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.[1][3] Coprinites is one of only four known agarics fungus species known in the fossil record and the first of three to be described from Dominican amber.[2][4]