Stubblefield S P, Taylor T N, Trappe J M
Science. 1987 Jul 3;237(4810):59-60. doi: 10.1126/science.237.4810.59.
Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae are significant in the physiology and ecology of extant vascular plants, and they may also have played a major role in the origin of the vascular land flora. The case for fossil vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae rests upon hyphae and chlamydospore-like bodies in several Paleozoic taxa, but fossil arbuscles are unknown to date. Specimens from the Triassic of Antarctica represent the first known occurrence of arbuscles in the fossil record.
泡囊-丛枝菌根在现存维管植物的生理学和生态学中具有重要意义，它们在维管陆地植物群的起源中可能也发挥了主要作用。关于化石泡囊-丛枝菌根的证据基于几个古生代类群中的菌丝和类厚垣孢子体，但迄今为止尚未发现化石丛枝。来自南极洲三叠纪的标本代表了化石记录中首次发现的丛枝。
