NAME Ampulliferinites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Didymosporae.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Ampulliferinites Kalgutkar & Sigler 1995, p. 515.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Fungus filamentous; filaments in short or long, determinate chains of conidia; filaments traversed by thin and thick-walled septa which alternate along the chains; conidia in arthroconidial chains separated by dark, thick septa; didymosporous, not or slightly constricted at medium septum and with truncate ends except the terminal conidium which is rounded at the apex.

Monotypic.
COMMENTS* Ampulliferinites appears to be similar to modern Ampulliferina (Sutton, 1969) which has didymosporous, catenate conidia that separate by fragmentation through the thick, dark brown septa along its length of arthroconidial chains. Ampulliferinites is also characterized by the presence of a basal cell with an attachment scar similar to one present in Ampulliferina. Bispora also produces catenate two-celled conidia, but the extension growth is blastic, the conidia are more strongly constricted at the fragmentation septa, and the conidia have very dark brown to black bands at each septum (Ellis, 1971). Derivation of name: affinity to Ampulliferina B. Sutton.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Kalgutkar RM, Sigler L. 1995. Some fossil fungal form-taxa from the Maastrichtian and Palaeogene ages; Mycological Research, v. 99, p. 513-522.
K&J REMARKS
TYPE TYPE: Ampulliferinites axelheibergii Kalgutkar & Sigler 1995, p. 515, fig. 4.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Ampulliferinites;
SERIAL NUMBER 16
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.