Coprinites

Coprinites; Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Agaricaceae
Genus:	†Coprinites; Poinar & Singer, 1990
Species:	†C. dominicana
Binomial name
	†Coprinites dominicana; Poinar & Singer, 1990

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]

^ ^a ^b Poinar, G.; Singer, R. (1990). "Upper Eocene gilled mushroom from the Dominican Republic". Science. 248 (4959): 1099–1101. Bibcode:1990Sci...248.1099P. doi:10.1126/science.248.4959.1099. PMID 17733372. S2CID 42236437.
^ ^a ^b Hibbet, D.S.; Grimaldi, D.S.; Donoghue, M.J. (1997). "Fossil mushrooms from Miocene and Cretaceous ambers and the evolution of Homobasidiomycetes". American Journal of Botany. 84 (8): 981–991. doi:10.2307/2446289. JSTOR 2446289.
^ Iturralde-Vinent, M.A.; MacPhee, R.D.E. (1996). "Age and Paleogeographical Origin of Dominican Amber". Science. 273 (5283): 1850–1852. Bibcode:1996Sci...273.1850I. doi:10.1126/science.273.5283.1850. S2CID 129754021.
^ Hibbet, D.S.; et al. (2003). "Another Fossil Agaric from Dominican Amber". Mycologia. 95 (4): 685–687. doi:10.2307/3761943. JSTOR 3761943. PMID 21148976.

[Poinar1990-1] Poinar, G.; Singer, R. (1990). "Upper Eocene gilled mushroom from the Dominican Republic". Science. 248 (4959): 1099–1101. Bibcode:1990Sci...248.1099P. doi:10.1126/science.248.4959.1099. PMID 17733372. S2CID 42236437.

[Hibetal1997-2] Hibbet, D.S.; Grimaldi, D.S.; Donoghue, M.J. (1997). "Fossil mushrooms from Miocene and Cretaceous ambers and the evolution of Homobasidiomycetes". American Journal of Botany. 84 (8): 981–991. doi:10.2307/2446289. JSTOR 2446289.

[IVMcP1996-3] Iturralde-Vinent, M.A.; MacPhee, R.D.E. (1996). "Age and Paleogeographical Origin of Dominican Amber". Science. 273 (5283): 1850–1852. Bibcode:1996Sci...273.1850I. doi:10.1126/science.273.5283.1850. S2CID 129754021.

[Hibetal2003-4] Hibbet, D.S.; et al. (2003). "Another Fossil Agaric from Dominican Amber". Mycologia. 95 (4): 685–687. doi:10.2307/3761943. JSTOR 3761943. PMID 21148976.

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