NAME Anatolinites megaporus
AGE Late Cretaceous.   AGE span: 99.6...65.5 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Song Z, Cao L. 1994. Late Cretaceous fungal spores from King George Island, Antarctica; Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Fides Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica, Monograph 3, p. 47-49.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY A. megaporus (Song & Cao) Jansonius, Hills & Hartkopf-Fröder, 1998, card no. 5071.
LOCATION King George Island, Antarctica.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Dolium or cupula-shaped in outline, with a nearly equal width in two terminal ends, slightly curved in two sides; size of holotype 43 x 28 µm; one pore, about 11 µm in diameter, and slightly undulated in margin; one-celled; exine solid, about 1 µm in thickness, levigate, dark in color.

EMENDED DESCRIPTION (Jansonius et al.): Tricellate or tetracellate spores, diporate; pore at distal (widest) end small; distal face tends to be flattened; spores broad, with lower (widest) part of spore not tapering much in proximal direction, resulting in a nearly cylindrical shape (with rounded corners); the proximal cell(s) tend to become separated from the spore by splitting along the septa, resulting in a straight, flat top (proximal) surface that the original authors mistook as representing a large pore (for which the species was named). [See Pl. 9, fig. 36.]
COMMENTS* Named for the large size of the pore. (Jansonius et al.): Differs from other species of Anatolinites in tending to have a nearly flat distal polar area.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Song Z, Cao L. 1994. Late Cretaceous fungal spores from King George Island, Antarctica; Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Fides Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica, Monograph 3, p. 47-49.

Jansonius J, Hills LV, Harkopf-Fröder C. 1998. Genera file of fossil spores--supplement 12; Special Publication, Department of Geology, University of Calgary, cards 5003-5310.
K&J REMARKS
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Cupulisporonites megaporus Song Zhichen & Cao Liu 1994, p. 47, p. 2, fig. 4.; Anatolinites megaporus
SERIAL NUMBER 27
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.