Palaeosclerotium , a Pennsylvanian Age Fungus Combining Features of Modern Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes

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Abstract
Fruiting bodies described previously as sclerotia of Palaeosclerotium pusillum are cleistothecium-like, enclosed structures, containing spores within an ascus. The cleistothecia are composed of hyphae having dolipore-like septa and are attached to vegetative hyphae having clamp connections. The unique combination of ascomycete-like reproductive bodies and basidiomycete-like hyphae present in this Pennsylvanian fungus suggests that there already existed, during the Middle Pennsylvanian period, a group of fungi intermediate between the Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes.