The Kalgutkar and Jansonius Database of Fossil Fungi
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NAME
Archephoma
AGE
AGE span:
mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000)
Fungi Imperfecti, Sphaeropsidales.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY
Archephoma Watanabe, Nishida & Kobayashi 1999, p. 436.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION
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ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Fossil pycnidia, semi-immersed, containing numerous conidia; pycnidial wall composed of two or three layers of thick-walled cells; conidiogenous cells ampliform; conidia hyaline, globose, smooth, aseptate.
COMMENTS
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As for the type species.
Etymology: From Greek arche (primitive) and Phoma (extant genus name).
PUBLICATION REFERENCE
Watanabe K, Nishida H, Kobayashi T. 1999. Cretaceous Deuteromycetes on a cycadeoidalean bisexual cone; International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 160, p. 435-443.
K&J REMARKS
As for the type species.
TYPE
TYPE: Archephoma cycadeoidellae Watanabe, Nishida & Kobayashi 1999, p. 436, figs. 2, 3 (holotype, slide no. 115).
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms)
Archephoma;
SERIAL NUMBER
49
PUBLIC COMMENTS
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For source, see Publication Reference.