Recent Publications

Book

Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L., Krings M. (2009): Paleobotany. The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. Burlington MA, London, San Diego CA, New York NY, Elsevier/Academic Press Inc., xxi + 1230 pp.

 

Zeitschriften- und Buchbeiträge

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Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Dotzler, N., Persichini, G. (2012): Fossil fungi with suggested affinities to the Endogonaceae from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica. – Mycologia.

Taylor, T.N., Krings, M., Taylor, E.L. (2012): Fungal diversity in the fossil record. – In: D.J. McLaughlin and J.W. Spatafora (Eds), The Mycota, vol. VII, 2nd ed. Systematics and Evolution, Berlin, Springer Verlag.

2012

Harper, C.J., Bomfleur, B., Decombeix, A.L., Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N., Krings, M. (2012): Tylosis formation and fungal interactions in an Early Jurassic conifer axis from northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 175, 25–31.

Krings, M., Galtier, J., Taylor, T.N., Dotzler, N. (2012): Microbial endophytes and pollen chamber contents in a fossil seed from the Upper Pennsylvanian Grand-Croix cherts, France. – Geologica et Palaeontologica 44, 93–99.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N. (2012a): Fungal reproductive units enveloped in a hyphal mantle from the Lower Pennsylvanian of Great Britain, and their relevance to our understanding of Carboniferous fungal “sporocarps”. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 175, 1–9.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N. (2012b): Microfossils with possible affinities to the zygomycetous fungi in a Carboniferous cordaitalean ovule. – Zitteliana A 52, 3–7.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Dotzler, N. (2012): Fungal endophytes as a driving force in land plant evolu-tion: evidence from the fossil record. – In: D. Southworth (Ed.), Biocomplexity of Plant-Fungal Interactions, pp. 5–27, Ames IA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L., Hass, H., Kerp, H., Dotzler, N., Harper, C.J. (2012): Microfossils from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert with suggested affinities to the Peronosporomycetes. – Journal of Paleontology 86, 358–367.

Taylor, T.N., Krings, M., Galtier, J., Dotzler, N. (2012): Fungal endophytes in Astromyelon-type (Sphenophyta, Equisetales, Calamitaceae) roots from the Upper Pennsylvanian of France. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 171, 9–18.

2011

Bomfleur, B., Krings, M., Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N. (2011): Macrofossil evidence for pleuromeialean lycophytes from the Triassic of Antarctica. – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56, 195–203.

Bomfleur, B., Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N., Serbet, R., Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2011): Systematics and paleoecology of a new peltaspermalean seed fern from the Triassic polar vegetation of Gondwana. – International Journal of Plant Sciences 172, 807–835.

Dotzler, N., Taylor, T.N., Galtier, J., Krings, M. (2011): Sphenophyllum (Sphenophyllales) leaves colonized by fungi from the Upper Pennsylvanian Grand-Croix cherts of central France. – Zitteliana A 51, 3–8.

Hübers, M., Bomfleur, B., Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2011): An Early Carboniferous leaf-colonizing fungus. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 261, 77–82.

Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Galtier, J., Taylor, T.N. (2011): Oldest fossil basidiomycete clamp connections. – Mycoscience 52, 18–23.

Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Taylor, T.N. (2011): Mycoparasitism in Dubiocarpon, a fungal sporocarp from the Carboniferous. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 262, 241–245.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Dotzler, N. (2011): The fossil record of the Peronosporomycetes (Oomycota). – Mycologia 103, 445–457.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Dotzler, N., Galtier, J. (2011): Fungal remains in cordaite (Cordaitales) leaves from the Upper Pennsylvanian of central France. – Bulletin of Geosciences 86, 777–784.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L., Dotzler, N., Walker, C. (2011): Arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi in Carboniferous arborescent lycopsids. – New Phytologist 191, 311–314.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., White, J.F. (2011): Fungal sporocarps from the Carboniferous: An unusual specimen of Traquairia. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 168, 1–6.

Schwendemann, A.B., Decombeix, A.L., Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L., Krings, M. (2011): Morphological and functional stasis in mycorrhizal root nodules as exhibited by a Triassic conifer. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, 13630–13634.

Taylor, T.N., Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Galtier, J. (2011): The advantage of thin sections over acetate peels in the study of late Paleozoic fungi and other microorganisms. – Palaios 26, 239–244.

2010

Barthel, M., Krings, M., Rössler, R. (2010): Die schwarzen Psaronien von Manebach, ihre Epiphyten, Parasiten und Pilze. – Semana 25, 41–60.

Bomfleur, B., Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2010): Thalloid organisms and the fossil record: new perspectives from the Transantarctic Mountains. – Plant Signaling & Behavior 5, 293–295.

Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Longcore, J.E., Taylor, T.N. (2010): An unusual microfungus in a fungal spore from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert. – Palaeontology 53, 753–759.

Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Taylor, T.N., Galtier, J. (2010a): A fungal community in plant tissue from the Lower Coal Measures (Langsettian, Lower Pennsylvanian) of Great Britain. – Bulletin of Geosciences 85, 679–690.

Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Taylor, T.N., Galtier, J. (2010b): Microfungi from the upper Visean (Mississippian) of central France: Structure and development of the sporocarp Mycocarpon cinctum nov. sp. – Zitteliana A 50, 127–135.

Krings, M., Schultka, S. (2010): A seed-bearing lobatopterid frond segment from the Westphalian D (Upper Pennsylvanian) of south-central Germany. – International Journal of Coal Geology 83, 125–131.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Dotzler, N., Decombeix, A.L. (2010): Galtierella biscalithecae nov. gen. et sp., a Late Pennsylvanian endophytic water mold (Peronosporomycetes) from France. – Comptes Rendus Palevol 9, 5–11.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Galtier, J., Dotzler, N. (2010a): A fossil peronosporomycete oogonium with an unusual surface ornament from the Carboniferous of France. – Fungal Biology 114, 446–450.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Galtier, J., Dotzler, N. (2010b): Microproblematic endophytes and epiphytes of fern pinnules from the Upper Pennsylvanian of France. – Geobios 43, 503–510.

Pott, C., Krings, M. (2010): Gymnosperm foliage from the Upper Triassic of Lunz, Lower Austria: an annotated check list and identification key. – Geo.Alp 7, 19–38.

Pott, C., Krings, M., Kerp, H., Friis, E.M. (2010): Reconstruction of a bennettitalean flower from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Lunz, Lower Austria. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 159, 94–111.

Schwendemann, A.B., Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L., Krings, M. (2010): Organization, anatomy, and fungal endophytes of a Triassic conifer embryo. – American Journal of Botany 97, 1873–1883.

Schwendemann, A.B., Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L., Krings, M., Osborn, J.M. (2010): Modern traits in early Mesozoic sphenophytes: The Equisetum-like cones of Spaciinodum collinsonii with in situ spores and elaters from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica. – In: C.T. Gee (Ed.), Plants in Mesozoic Time. Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems, pp. 15–33, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press.

Taylor, T.N., Krings, M. (2010): Paleomycology: the rediscovery of the obvious. – Palaios 25, 283–286.

Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L., Decombeix, A.L., Schwendemann, A., Serbet, R., Escapa, I., Krings, M. (2010): The enigmatic Devonian fossil Prototaxites is not a rolled-up liverwort mat: Comment on the paper by Graham et al. (AJB 97: 268–275). – American Journal of Botany 97, 1074–1078.

Wang, X., Krings, M., Taylor, T.N. (2010): A thalloid organism with possible lichen affinity from the Jurassic of northeastern China. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 162, 591–598.

2009

Bomfleur, B., Krings, M., Kaštovský, J., Kerp, H. (2009): An enigmatic non-marine thalloid organism from the Triassic of East Antarctica. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 157, 317–325.

Dotzler, N., Walker, C., Krings, M., Hass, H., Kerp, H., Taylor, T.N., Agerer, R. (2009): Acaulosporoid glomeromycotan spores with a germination shield from the 400-million-year-old Rhynie chert. – Mycological Progress 8, 9–18.

Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Galtier, J., Taylor, T.N. (2009): Microfungi from the upper Visean (Mississippian) of central France: Chytridiomycota and chytrid-like remains of uncertain affinity. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 156: 319–328.

Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Taylor, T.N. (2009): Globicultrix nugax nov. gen. et nov. spec. (Chytridiomycota), an intrusive microfungus in fungal spores from the Rhynie chert. – Zitteliana A 48/49: 165–170.

Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Taylor, T.N., Galtier, J. (2009): A Late Pennsylvanian fungal leaf endophyte from Grand-Croix, France. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 156: 440–444.

Krings, M., Galtier, J., Taylor, T.N., Dotzler, N. (2009): Chytrid-like microfungi in Biscalitheca cf. musata (Zygopteridales) from the Upper Pennsylvanian Grand-Croix cherts (Saint-Etienne Basin, France). – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 157, 309–316.

Krings, M., Hass, H., Kerp, H., Taylor, T.N., Agerer, R., Dotzler, N. (2009): Endophytic cyanobacteria in a 400-million-yr-old land plant: A scenario for the origin of a symbiosis? – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 153, 62–69.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Galtier, J. (2009): An enigmatic microorganism from the Upper Pennsylvanian Grand-Croix cherts (Saint-Etienne Basin, France). – Zitteliana A 48/49: 171-173.

Schwendemann, A.B., Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L., Krings, M., Dotzler, N. (2009): Combresomyces cornifer from the Triassic of Antarctica: Evolutionary stasis in the Peronosporomycetes. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 154, 1–5.

Vörding, B., Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2009): Reconstruction of Late Pennsylvanian CO2 levels based on Odontopteris brardii (Pteridospermopsida, ?Medullosales) cuticles from France and Germany. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 254, 359–372.

2008

Dotzler, N., Krings, M., Agerer, R., Galtier, J., Taylor, T.N. (2008): Combresomyces cornifer gen. sp. nov., an endophytic peronosporomycete in Lepidodendron from the Carboniferous of central France. – Mycological Research 112, 1107–1114.

Krings, M., Kerp, H., Bomfleur, B. (2008): Zur Wedelentwicklung und Heterophyllie bei Pteridospermen aus dem Oberkarbon und Unterperm. – Abhandlungen aus dem Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde 70, 453–464.

McCann, T., Skompski, S., Poty, E., Dusar, M., Vozárová, A., Schneider, J., Wetzel, A., Krainer, K., Kornpihl, K., Schäfer, A., Krings, M., Oplustil, S., Tait, J. (2008): Carboniferous. – In: T. McCann (Ed.), The Geology of Central Europe. Vol. 1, Precambrian and Palaeozoic, pp. 411–529, London, The Geological Society.

Pott, C., Kerp, H., Krings, M. (2008): Sphenophytes from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Lunz am See, Lower Austria. – Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Wien 148, 183–199.

Pott, C., Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2008): The Carnian (Late Triassic) flora from Lunz in Lower Austria: palaeoecological considerations. – Palaeoworld 17, 172–182.

Pott, C., Labandeira, C.C., Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2008): Fossil insect eggs and ovipositional damage on bennettitalean leaf cuticles from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Austria. – Journal of Paleontology 82, 778–789.

Schneider, S., Dotzler, N., Krings, M. (2008): Ein Chert-Vorkommen mit Pflanzenresten aus dem ?Unter-Miozän von Mahd (SW Passau, Niederbayern): vorläufige Ergebnisse. – Geologica et Palaeontologica 42, 7–21.

2007

Dotzler, N., Taylor, T.N., Krings, M. (2007): A prasinophycean alga of the genus Cymatiosphaera in the Early Devonian Rhynie chert. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 147, 106–111.

Fleischmann, A., Krings, M., Mayr, H., Agerer, R. (2007): Structurally preserved polypores from the Neogene of North Africa: Ganodermites libycus gen. et sp. nov. (Polyporales, Ganodermataceae). – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 145, 159–172.

Krings, M., Dotzler, N., Taylor, T.N., Galtier, J. (2007): A microfungal assemblage in Lepidodendron from the Upper Visean (Carboniferous) of central France. – Comptes Rendus Palevol 6, 431–436.

Krings, M., Kerp, H., Hass, H., Taylor, T.N., Dotzler, N. (2007): A filamentous cyanobacterium showing structured colonial growth from the Early Devonian Rhynie chert. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 146, 265–276.

Krings, M., Klavins, S.D., Lausberg, S., Barthel, M., Serbet, R., Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L. (2007): Perissothallus, a new genus for Late Pennsylvanian-Early Permian noncalcareous algae conventionally assigned to Schizopteris (aphleboid foliage). – Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 153, 477–488.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Hass, H., Kerp, H., Dotzler, N., Hermsen, E.J. (2007a): An alternative mode of early land plant colonization by putative endomycorrhizal fungi. – Plant Signaling & Behavior 2, 125–126.

Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Hass, H., Kerp, H., Dotzler, N., Hermsen, E.J. (2007b): Fungal endophytes in a 400-million-yr-old land plant: infection pathways, spatial distribution, and host responses. – New Phytologist 174, 648–657.

Pott, C., Kerp, H., Krings, M. (2007a): Morphology and epidermal anatomy of Nilssonia (cycadalean foliage) from the Upper Triassic of Lunz (Lower Austria). – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 143, 197–217.

Pott, C., Kerp, H., Krings, M. (2007b): Pseudoctenis cornelii nov. spec. (cycadalean foliage) from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Lunz, Lower Austria. – Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 109, 1–17.

Pott, C., Krings, M. (2007): First record of circinate vernation in bennettitalean foliage. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 245, 315–321.

Pott, C., Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2007a): A surface micro-relief on the leaves of Glossophyllum florinii (?Ginkgoales) from the Upper Triassic of Lunz, Austria. – Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 153, 87–95.

Pott, C., Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2007b): First record of Nilssoniopteris (Gymnospermophyta, Bennettitales) from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Lunz, Lower Austria. – Palaeontology 50, 1299–1318.

Pott, C., van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, J.H.A., Kerp, H., Krings, M. (2007): Revision of the Pterophyllum species (Cycadophytina: Bennettitales) in the Carnian (Late Triassic) flora from Lunz, Lower Austria. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 147, 3–27.

2006

Dotzler, N., Krings, M., Taylor, T.N., Agerer, R. (2006): Germination shields in Scutellospora (Glomeromycota: Diversisporales, Gigasporaceae) from the 400 million-year-old Rhynie chert. – Mycological Progress 5, 178–184.

Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2006): Neuropteris attenuata, a narrow-stemmed, leaning or lianescent seed fern from the Upper Pennsylvanian of northwestern Germany. – Flora 201, 233–239.

Krings, M., Klavins, S.D., Taylor, T.N., Taylor, E.L., Serbet, R., Kerp, H. (2006): Frond architecture of Odontopteris brardii (Pteridospermopsida, ?Medullosales): new evidence from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Missouri, U.S.A. – Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 133, 33–45.

Taylor, T.N., Krings, M., Kerp, H. (2006): Hassiella monospora nov. gen. et sp., a microfungus from the 400 million year old Rhynie chert. – Mycological Research 110, 628–632.

2005

DiMichele, W.A., Kerp, H., Krings, M., Chaney, D.S. (2005): The Permian peltasperm radiation: evidence from the southwestern United States. – New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 30, 67–79.

Klavins, S.D., Kellogg, D.W., Krings, M., Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N. (2005): Coprolites in a Middle Triassic cycad pollen cone: evidence for insect pollination in early cycads? – Evolutionary Ecology Research 7, 479–488.

Krings, M. (2005): Makroalgen. – In: A. Hendricks (Ed.), Als Hagen am Äquator lag. Die Fossilien der Ziegeleigrube Hagen-Vorhalle, pp. 210–215, Steinfurt, Sigma Druck.

Krings, M., Butzmann, R. (2005): Haeringiella multifidiformis gen. et sp. nov., an uncalcified alga from the lower Oligocene (Tertiary) of Bad Häring, Austria. – Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 126, 177–186.

Krings, M., Grewing, A., Klavins, S.D., Taylor, T.N. (2005): Karinopteris und Mariopteris: Wuchsform und Ökologie. – In: A. Hendricks (Ed.), Als Hagen am Äquator lag. Die Fossilien der Ziegeleigrube Hagen-Vorhalle, pp. 198–209, Steinfurt, Sigma Druck.

Krings, M., Grewing, A., Taylor, T.N., Kerp, H., Galtier, J. (2005): Lageniastrum macrosporae (fossil Volvocales, Lageniastraceae nov. fam.), an endophyte in megaspores from the Carboniferous of the French Massif Central. – Geobios 38, 451–465.

Krings, M., Klavins, S.D., DiMichele, W.A., Kerp, H., Taylor, T.N. (2005): Epidermal anatomy of Glenopteris splendens Sellards nov. emend., an enigmatic seed plant from the Lower Permian of Kansas (U.S.A.). – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 136, 159–180.

Mayr, H., Krings M. (2005): Bassonia hakelensis (Basson) Krings et Mayr, eine Meeresalge aus der Oberkreide des Libanon: die Stücke der Sammlung Jean Otto Haas. – Jahresbericht 2004 und Mitteilungen der Freunde der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie München e.V. 33, 28–35.

Taylor, T.N., Hass, H., Kerp, H., Krings, M., Hanlin, R.T. (2005): Perithecial ascomycetes from the 400 million year old Rhynie Chert: an example of ancestral polymorphism. – Mycologia 97, 269–285.

Taylor, T.N., Krings, M. (2005a): Fossil microorganisms and land plants: associations and interactions. – Symbiosis 40, 119–135.

Taylor, T.N., Krings, M. (2005b): Fungi and lichens. – In: R.C. Selley, L.R.M. Cocks, and I.R. Plimer (Eds), Encyclopedia of Geology, vol. 2, pp. 436–443, Amsterdam, Elsevier Science Ltd.

Taylor, T.N., Krings, M., Klavins, S.D., Taylor, E.L. (2005): Protoascon missouriensis, a complex fossil microfungus revisited. – Mycologia 97, 725–729.