Pinthanatos psammoviri

Pinthanatos psammoviri
Creator	Sneal
Information
Status	Extant
Zones	D
Roles	Decomposer
Classification
Genus	Pinthanatos
Species	Pinthanatos psammoviri
Evolution
Date	February 1st, 2019
Ancestor	Pinthanatos fuscimalus
Descendants	Pinthanatos khthonspongos

The vast majority of terrestrial biomes have been slowly, quietly, been accumulating a gigantic corpse problem. Neither of them have any scavengers nor decomposers, which is causing bodies to die and stay for far longer then typical. Carbon Dioxide is being held in these corpses, which is storing the gas out of the atmosphere and is causing average temperatures to plummet and plants to slowly die from lack the gas. This also gives plenty of food for a potential organism to evolve to prey on these bodies. Such as... uh... how about Fungera fuscimalus?

Fungera psammoviri is a coastal Synaplotan exclusive to Zone D, though the speed of its range growing might allow it to quickly move to other zones. Its life starts a zoospore swimming close to the coast, until it lands and grows close to the water, so when hightide comes it's properly hydrated. Otherwise, this 10 μm fungus is rather typical, decomposing dead bodies from land or sea. The sand or soil surrounding it typically turns green from the enzyme Fuscimalase. Less of the chemical is produced individually, though a group can produce more then a group of F. fuscimalus. This has unfortunately caused a problem of the sand being partially toxic for certain groups, but that is overpowered by the benefit of removing dead bodies, causing plants to grow more numerous and just causing a richer ecosystem to form.