NAME Asterothyrites minutus
AGE Oligocene-Miocene.   AGE span: 33.9...5.332 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Ascomycetes, Microthyriales.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Cookson IC. 1947. Fossil fungi from Tertiary deposits in the southern hemisphere. Part I; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, v. 72, p. 207-214.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY A. minutus Cookson 1947a, p. 210, pl. 12, fig. 10.
LOCATION Australia, New Zealand and the Kerguelen Archipelago.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Amphigenous; mycelium sparse, brown, non-hyphopodite, about 2-2.5 µm thick. Ascomata scattered, small, 47-80 µm in diameter, composed of united hyphae which radiate from a single central cubical or hexagonal cell; cells almost cubical to rectangular, about 3 µm thick, rather thick walled; margin thin, not fimbriate.
COMMENTS* On leaves of Oleinites willisii from Yallourn, Victoria.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Cookson IC. 1947. Fossil fungi from Tertiary deposits in the southern hemisphere. Part I; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, v. 72, p. 207-214.
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ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Asterothyrites minutus
SERIAL NUMBER 75
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 *For source, see Publication Reference.