NAME Basidiosporites Elsik 1968.
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Amerosporae.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Amepiospora Salard-Cheboldaeff & Locquin 1980, p. 191.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Smooth, elliptical amerospores [Jansonius & Hills (1981), card no. 3813].
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Salard-Cheboldaeff M, Locquin MV. 1980. Champignons présents au Tertiaire le long du littoral de l' Afrique équatoriale: 105e Congrès National des Sociétée savantes, Caen, 1980, Sciences, fascicule 1, p. 183-195.
K&J REMARKS The genus is not sufficiently circumscribed. The rudimentary diagnosis, which needs the support of characters given in the next higher taxonomic unit, points out the danger of Locquin's approach [...]: he developed a system of all possible structures, and tried to fit his material into this system, rather than describing and then organizing it in a systematic manner. [Jansonius & Hills (1981), card no. 3813].

The type, A. ellipsoidea, is transferred to Basidiosporites (Kalgutkar and Jansonius 2000); this makes Amepiospora a junior synonym of Basidiosporites. The other species described under this genus have been transferred to Monoporisporites and Lacrimasporonites.
TYPE TYPE: Amepiospora ellipsoidea Salard-Cheboldaeff & Locquin 1980, p. 191, pl. 1, fig. 10.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Basidiosporites Elsik 1968.;
SERIAL NUMBER 10
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.