NAME Monoporisporites globulosus
AGE Late Cretaceous-Middle Eocene.   AGE span: 88.6...40.4 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Amerosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Rouse GE. 1962. Plant microfossils from the Burrard Formation of western British Columbia; Micropaleontology, v. 8, p. 187-218.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY M. globulosus (Rouse) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Burrard Formation, Terminal Dock, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spores irregularly globular in outline. Spore wall levigate and moderately thick, about 3 µm. A slight suture line is generally present in variable position on the spore wall (pl. 5, fig. 13). There is usually a small flattened area of the wall at one end of the spore where union with another spore was broken. Size-range 25-40 µm.
COMMENTS* The affiliation of this spore is unknown. It is undoubtedly fungal in origin. A similar form was reported from Eocene lignites by Potonié (1934, pl. 1, fig. 8).
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Rouse GE. 1962. Plant microfossils from the Burrard Formation of western British Columbia; Micropaleontology, v. 8, p. 187-218.
K&J REMARKS The presence of (a pore or) an attachment scar at one end of the spore, together with its shape, indicates that the species should be included in the genus Monoporisporites as here emended [see Kalgutkar and Jansonius’s (2000) REMARKS under the genus Lacrimasporonites, where Norris (1997) included this species]. This spore is not similar to that illustrated in Potonié 1934 (pl. 1, fig. 8), as indicated by Rouse; however, Potonié's fig. 9 shows similarity.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Inapertisporites globulosus Rouse 1962, p. 208, pl. 5, fig. 13.; Monoporisporites globulosus
SERIAL NUMBER 978
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.