Dr. Michael Krings

  • Adjunct Professor

Contact Info

Education —

Ph.D., Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, 1998, Münster, Germany

Selected Publications —

  • Krings, M. 2021. Peculiar bundles and a knot of thin filaments in microbial mats from the Lower Devonian Rhynie and Windyfield cherts. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 291: no. 104442.
  • Krings, M. 2021. Rhyniotaxillus minutulus n. sp., a pico-sized colonial cyanobacterium from the 410-million-yr-old Windyfield chert of Scotland. Nova Hedwigia 113: 17–31.
  • Krings, M. 2021. Stigonema (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) in the Rhynie chert (Lower Devonian, Scotland). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 295: no. 104505.
  • Krings, M. 2021. The Rhynie chert land plant Aglaophyton majus harbored cyanobacteria in necrotic local lesions. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 300: 279–289.
  • Krings, M., S.M. Serbet, S.M., and C.J. Harper. 2021. Rhizophydites matryoshkae gen. et sp. nov. (fossil Chytridiomycota) on spores of the early land plant Horneophyton lignieri from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert. International Journal of Plant Sciences 182: 109–122.
  • Moisan, P., M. Krings, S. Voigt, and H. Kerp. 2021. Fossil roots with root nodules from the Madygen Formation (Ladinian–Carnian; Triassic) of Kyrgyzstan. Geobios 64: 65–75.
  • Walker, C., C.J. Harper, M. Brundrett, and M. Krings. 2021. The Early Devonian fungus Mycokidstonia sphaerialoides from the Rhynie chert is a member of the Ambisporaceae (Glomeromycota, Archaeosporales), not an ascomycete. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 287: no. 104384.
  • Harper, C.J., E.L. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2020. Filamentous cyanobacteria preserved in masses of fungal hyphae from the Triassic of Antarctica. PeerJ 8: e8660.
  • Krings, M., and C.J. Harper. 2020. Deciphering interfungal relationships in the 410-million-yr-old Rhynie chert: Brijax amictus gen. et sp. nov. (Chytridiomycota) colonizing the walls of glomeromycotan acaulospores. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 281: no. 104287.
  • Harper, C.J., and M. Krings, M. 2019. Nimbosphaera rothwellii nov. gen. et sp., an enigmatic microfossil enveloped in a prominent sheath from the Lower Devonian Windyfield chert, Scotland. International Journal of Plant Sciences 180: 558–570.
  • Krings, M. 2019. Palaeolyngbya kerpii nov. sp., a large filamentous cyanobacterium with affinities to Oscillatoriaceae from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert. PalZ 93: 377–386.
  • Krings, M., and C.J. Harper. 2019 A microfossil resembling Merismopedia (Cyanobacteria) from the 410-million-yr-old Rhynie and Windyfield cherts – Rhyniococcus uniformis revisited. Nova Hedwigia 108: 17–35.
  • Krings, M., and C.J. Harper. 2019. Fungal intruders of enigmatic propagule clusters occurring in microbial mats from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert. PalZ 93: 135–149.
  • Krings, M., and H. Kerp. 2019. A tiny parasite of unicellular microorganisms from the Lower Devonian Rhynie and Windyfield cherts, Scotland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 271: no. 104106.
  • Regalado, L., A.R. Schmidt, P. Müller, L. Niedermeier, M. Krings, and H. Schneider. 2019. Heinrichsia cheilanthoides gen. et sp. nov., a fossil fern in the family Pteridaceae (Polypodiales) from the Cretaceous amber forests of Myanmar. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 57: 329–338.
  • Krings, M., C.J. Harper, N.R. Cúneo, and G.W. Rothwell (eds.) 2018. Transformative Paleobotany. Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. London, San Diego, CA, Cambridge, MA, Oxford, Elsevier/Academic Press Inc., xxvi + 705 p.
  • Krings, M., and C.J. Harper. 2018. Deciphering interfungal relationships in the 410-million-yr-old Rhynie chert: Glomoid spores under attack. Geobios 51: 151–160. 
  • Walker, C., C.J. Harper, M.C. Brundrett, and M. Krings. 2018. Looking for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the fossil record: An illustrated guide. In: Krings, M., C.J. Harper, N.R. Cúneo, and G.W. Rothwell (Eds.), Transformative Paleobotany: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. London, San Diego, CA, Cambridge, MA, Oxford, Elsevier/Academic Press Inc., p. 481–517.