NAME Dictyosporites Felix 1894.
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Dictyosporae.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Arbusculites Paradkar 1976, p. 120.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Saprophytic fungus, septate mycelium, dictyospores formed on a conidial head. Monotypic.
COMMENTS* As for the type species.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Paradkar SA. 1976. Pollen and fungal spore association on a fossil leaf from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of India; Journal of Palynology, v. 10 (1974), p. 119-125.
K&J REMARKS The author identified the slide number of the holotype, and where it is stored, but did not specify which of the illustrated figures represents the type. Although it might be argued that therefore the ICBN would indicate that the name of this genus (and species) were not validly published, conceivably, all are part of the single holotype specimen. Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) consider that in this grey area the author deserves the benefit of doubt, and they do accept the name as validly published. The text-figures (drawings) are more instructive than the poorly printed micrographs.

However, the diagnosis lacks criteria to set this genus apart from others; the description of the single species must be consulted also. It is doubtful that other mycelia could be assigned to this genus with certainty. The dictyospores, however, are clearly illustrated, and can be differentiated from other dispersed spores. For that reason, Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) transfer the single species to Dictyosporites, even if by doing so they make Arbusculites a junior taxonomic synonym of Dictyosporites.
TYPE TYPE: Arbusculites dicotylophylli Paradkar 1976, p. 120, pl. 1, fig. 5.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Dictyosporites Felix 1894.;
SERIAL NUMBER 43
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.