NAME Asterinites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Ascomycetes, Microthyriales.
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FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Asterinites Doubinger & Pons, ex Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Colony epiphytic, branched. External mycelium developed, not obliterated. Stigmocysts intercalary, stigmopodia unicellular or bicellular. Hyphopodia mucronate, setae and spores absent. [Unedited translation from French; GSC Calgary Library, Translation No. T4047624.]
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Doubinger J, Pons D. 1973. Les champignons épiphylles du Tertiaire de Colombie. I. Le gisement de Cerrejón (Paléocène-Éocène); 96e Congrès National des Sociétés savantes, Toulouse, 1971, Sciences, v. 5, p. 233-252.
K&J REMARKS Jansonius & Hills (1976, card no. 181) remarked: "Two species described; until one of these is selected as type species, the genus is not validly published (ICBN, Art. 37). The genus seems to be intended for mycelia, rather than definite fruiting bodies".
TYPE TYPE: Asterinites colombiensis Doubinger & Pons 1973, p. 234, pl. 2, figs. 1-6 [lectotype, here designated; the type is curated in the collections of the Palynology Laboratory of the Geological Institute of Strasbourg (CNRS)].
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Asterinites Doubinger & Pons 1973, p. 234 (nom. nud.) ; Asterinites;
SERIAL NUMBER 63
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.