NAME Ascochytites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Sphaeropsidales.
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FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Ascochytites Barlinge & Paradkar 1982, p. 170.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Saprophytic sphaeropsidaceous fungus with ostiolate pycnidia; hyphae septate, branched; conidiospores small. Monotypic.
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Barlinge SG, Paradkar SA. 1982. Record of the new fossil algal and fungal forms from the Deccan lntertrappean of Mohgaon-Kalan. M. P., India; The Botanique, v. 18 (1979), p. 163-175.
K&J REMARKS The name Ascochytites was first used by Teterevnikova-Babaian & Taslakhchian (1973), but not then validly published due to lack of illustration of the spores. Barlinge & Paradkar probably were not aware of this earlier publication, when they proposed Ascochytites as a new genus, with A. intertrappeus as its type.
TYPE TYPE: Ascochytites intertrappeus Barlinge & Paradkar 1982, p. 170, pl. 1, fig. D.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Ascochytites;
SERIAL NUMBER 53
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.