NAME Anatolinites holocenicus
AGE Holocene.   AGE span: 0.0117...0 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Van Der Wiel AM. 1982. A palaeoecological study of a section taken from the foot of the Hazendonk (Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands), based on the analysis of pollen, spores and macroscopic plant remains; Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 38, p. 35-90.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY A. holocenicus Elsik, Ediger & Bati 1990, p. 100.
LOCATION Alblasserwaard, province of Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* (Van der Wiel) Plate II, 144a and b; Plate III, 144a and b. (A possibly heterogenous group of) fungal spores (chlamydospores?), biseptate, shortly ellipsoidal. Hyaline basal cell generally lacking; the two darkly pigmented cells are usually found detached in the pollen samples. Detached cells 8-14 (10) x 7-11 (9) µm. In each septum a ca. 1 µm wide pore. Apical cell also provided with a ca. 1 µm wide pore.

EMENDED DESCRIPTION (Elsik, Ediger & Bati): Diporate, tricellate, psilate fungal spores ca. 7-11 x 16-20 µm overall. The spore axis is straight to slightly curved. The spore outline is obovate. Specimens that have lost the proximal cell have an elliptical outline, truncated on the proximal end. Both pores are simple, ca. 1 µm. The septal pore is ca. 1 µm. The spore wall is darkly pigmented to a shade of brown, except for the very thin-walled proximal cell, which can be transparent. The spore wall is ca. 0.25 µm or less; the two larger cells have a wall that is ca. 0.25-0.5 µm thick. The septa are thicker, ca. twice the spore wall; they consist of two layers which facilitates splitting of the mature spore into separate cells; either one or two cells can be found detached.
COMMENTS* (Elsik, Ediger & Bati): Anatolinites holocenicus is characterized by its small size and having only three cells in the complete spore. Its tendency to fragment into its component cells is shared with A. alaskaensis which is much larger. Named for its occurrence in the Holocene.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Van Der Wiel AM. 1982. A palaeoecological study of a section taken from the foot of the Hazendonk (Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands), based on the analysis of pollen, spores and macroscopic plant remains; Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 38, p. 35-90.

Elsik WC, Ediger VS, Bati Z. 1990. Fossil fungal spores: Anatolinites nov. gen.; Palynology, v. 14, p. 91-103.
K&J REMARKS Van der Wiel (1982) did not specify where his material was stored. Van Geel (pers. comm., e-mail to JJ) stated that it is curated in the Hugo de Vries Laboratorium, University of Amsterdam.
TYPE Van der Wiel 1982, pl. 3, fig. 144a (stored in the Hugo de Vries Palynology Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; fide B. van Geel); designated by Elsik et al. 1990. Technically the name of the species A. holocenicus may not have been validly published in 1990; it is here validated by citing information on where the type is stored (ICBN, Art. 37.5).
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Anatolinites holocenicus
SERIAL NUMBER 26
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.