Is this the first one ever photographed an opal fungus?

[Vopros]

Here is another “forest floor” opal and this one has an opalised fungus, I believe.

Here is a video of it and I attached some microscopic stills.

 

 

What do you think? Is this one a fungus?

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

1 hour ago, Vopros said:

opalised fungus

Hi There,

 

'Fungus' (fungi) or mushroom fossils are exeedingly rare because of their fragile organic nature. This looks more like a formation that is geological. The closest and most common example that has a similar look is moss agate. 

 

Image Credit: Fitriana Rochmawaty

[Vopros]

9 hours ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

Hi There,

 

'Fungus' (fungi) or mushroom fossils are exeedingly rare because of their fragile organic nature. This looks more like a formation that is geological. The closest and most common example that has a similar look is moss agate. 

 

 

 

Thank you!

it is an interesting suggestion, and I even might have agreed with you if I did not find many more microscopic plants in the same small piece of opals. Please take a look at the attached images. There are a few more, which I will post later. So, if leaves got fossilized , why fungus could not have?

[Vopros]

And here are two more fungi from the same piece.

[Mark Kmiecik]

What features that are unique to fungi do these specimens have?

[Vopros]

47 minutes ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

What features that are unique to fungi do these specimens have?

Well, the first one is round and with some strange thing in the middle. Here are a few similarly shaped fungi

 

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Fossil-evidence-of-zygomycetous-fungi-references-and-further-explanations-in-the-text_fig2_256502043

The second one has a shape of a fungi and also the texture,  which IMO is similar to the one from this picture

Besides, the first one is not a moss opal and is definitely some kind of an organic inclusion. If it is not a fungus, what else could it be?

Also the attached image is from the same opal. I am not sure what it is but it appear to be organic and it to got fossilized. Maybe they small fungi as well?

Thank you!