NAME Palaeomycites Meschinelli 1902.
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) See Kalgutkar & Jansonius’s (2000) remarks under Palaeomycites.
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FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Aplanosporites Kar 1979, p. 35.
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ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Spore generally subcircular, irregularly folded, inaperturate, levigate. A tail-like appendage present in most specimens.

[Description:] Fully flattened specimens without folds rare, spores take various shapes due to haphazard foldings, 68-134 µm. Spore coat up to 2 µm thick. Characteristic appendage-like projection probably forms from original hyphae, terminal part of which swollen to form spore (aplanospore?). In some specimens (pl. 3, fig. 58) this hypha-like growth seems to originate from other hyphae. Appendage-like structure may be preserved terminally but may also be appressed to body of spores (pl. 3, figs. 61-62).
COMMENTS* Inapertisporites van der Hammen, emend. Elsik 1968, resembles the present genus in inaperturate nature but the latter can easily be distinguished by its tail-like flagellum. Inaperturopollenites (Pflug) Potonié 1966 is also inaperturate, but has intrapunctate exine and most probably gymnospermous in origin. Thecaspora Elsik 1966 apparently resembles Aplanosporites in having a tail-like projection but it has a distinct trilete mark and its spinose perispore is drawn out proximally into a trifolium.

Aplanosporites proposed here resembles some of the planktonic forms. Jen (1958) described a supposedly fungal spore from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Hunan, China which resembles the present genus. Besides, Kar & Sah (1970) described plankton type-1 from Vemavaram (Upper Jurassic) which is also characterized by a long appendage. Kar & Bose (1976) also reported another plankton type-1 with a very long appendage.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Kar RK. 1979. Palynological fossils from the Oligocene sediments and their biostratigraphy in the District of Kutch, western India; The Palaeobotanist, v. 26 (1977), p. 16-49.
K&J REMARKS Aplanosporites, Phycomycites Ellis 1915 and Rhizophagites Rosendahl 1943 are here (in Kalgutkar and Jansonius 2000) considered to be junior synonyms of Palaeomycites Meschinelli 1902 (non Renault 1896) .
TYPE TYPE: Aplanosporites robustus Kar 1979, p. 35, pl. 3, fig. 58.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Palaeomycites Meschinelli 1902.;
SERIAL NUMBER 38
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 *For source, see Publication Reference.