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The First Record of the Rust Fungus (Pucciniales) Spores from Middle Eocene Sakhalinian Amber

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Fungus spores resembling teliospores of the genus Nyssopsora (Pucciniales) were found in a sample of Sakhalinian amber. Morphological features of the spores in the examined amber sample in general correspond to description of teliospores of the extant species Nyssopsora trevesiae parasitizing host plants of the Araliaceae, Trevesia sundaica in Java and Sumatra and Brassaiopsis ciliata in Southern China. It can be assumed that the plant on which those teliospores formed most likely belongs to the Trevesia–Brassaiopsis group. Extant species of these genera are characteristic of the undergrowth in humid forests from the Himalayas to Indonesia, which supports paleofaunistic data on rather warm and humid climate of Sakhalinian amber forest.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We consider it our pleasant duty to express our gratitude to A.P. Rasnitsyn and I.D. Sukacheva (PIN) for the possibility to study Sakhalin material, V.V. Martynov (Slavyansk) for detecting this inclusion during sorting the amber collection, A.P. Vlaskin (Institute of Zoology, NASU, Kyiv) for polishing the sample, A.A. Oskolsky (Botanical Museum, Komarov Botanical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg) for valuable remarks and comments on the age of the Araliaceae, and N.P. Maslova (PIN) for constructive comments and suggestions.

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The study was supported by the RFBR grant no. 19-04-00046 (DV).

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  1. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Yu. Ya. Tykhonenko & V. P. Hayova

  2. Educational and Scientific Center “Institute of Biology and Medicine”, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Kyiv, Ukraine

    M. N. Sukhomlyn

  3. Tsytsin Main Moscow Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    M. S. Ignatov

  4. Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    M. S. Ignatov

  5. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia

    D. V. Vasilenko

  6. Cherepovets State University, Cherepovets, Russia

    D. V. Vasilenko

  7. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

    E. E. Perkovsky

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Tykhonenko, Y.Y., Hayova, V.P., Sukhomlyn, M.N. et al. The First Record of the Rust Fungus (Pucciniales) Spores from Middle Eocene Sakhalinian Amber. Paleontol. J. 55, 105–110 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121010135

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