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Fossil fungi in lignite-bearing deposits: An overview of Miocene lignites from Poland Cover

Fossil fungi in lignite-bearing deposits: An overview of Miocene lignites from Poland

Geologos
Volume 32 (2026): Issue 1 (May 2026)
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|May 2026
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Fig. 1.

Map of Poland showing localities yielding fungal microremains from Miocene lignite-bearing deposits (The map’s cartographic base is sourced from: Open Data Commons Open Database License, OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF), www.OpenStreetMap.org, © Authors OpenStreetMap (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Fig. 2.

Selected fungal microfossils from Miocene lignite-bearing deposits in Poland. A – Sporodochium of Neomycoleptodiscus pertusus, Bełchatów opencast mine; B – Conidium of Cancellidium intergraniferum, Tomisławice opencast mine; C – Ascospore of Potamomyces sp. ex gr. P. armatisporus, Bełchatów opencast mine; D – Conidium of Mycoenterolobium eccentricum, Bełchatów opencast mine. Scale bars equal 10 μm.

Fig. 3.

Selected fungal microfossils from Miocene lignite-bearing deposits in Poland. A – Epiphyllous sporocarp of Trichothyrites sp., Drzewce opencast mine; B – Conidium of helicosporous aero-aquatic hyphomycete, Drzewce opencast mine; C – Microsclerotium of dark septate endophytic fungus, Chłapowo lignite seam; D – Isolated fragment of cephalothecoid peridium of Cephalothecoidomyces neogenicus, Adamów opencast mine. Scale bars equal 10 μm.

Fig. 4.

Conidium of Asterosporium asterospermum, Miocene of Bełchatów opencast mine. Scale bar equals 10 μm.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/logos.2026.32.geo02 | Journal eISSN: 2080-6574 | Journal ISSN: 1426-8981
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Language: English
Page range: 1 - 13
Submitted on: Jan 5, 2026
Accepted on: Mar 3, 2026
Published on: May 30, 2026
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Fungal microremains,
palynology,
non-pollen palynomorphs,
lignite deposits,
palaeoenvironment,
Neogene
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geophysics,
Geology and mineralogy,
Geosciences, other

© 2026 Grzegorz Worobiec, Elżbieta Worobiec, published by Adam Mickiewicz University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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