NAME Brachysporisporites maximus
AGE Eocene-Oligocene.   AGE span: 55.8...23.03 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Ke, Shi. 1978. (pseudonym of Sung, Z.C., Tsao, L., Chou, H.I., Kwang, H.L. & Wang, K.T.) Early Tertiary spores and pollen grains from the coastal region of the Bohai (in Chinese); Academy of Petroleum Exploration, Development and Planning Research of the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industries and the Nanjing Institute of Geology, and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kexue Chubanshe, Peking, 177 p.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY B. maximus (Ke & Shi) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Panshan, Liaoning Province, Coastal region of Bohai, China.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spores 83-85 x 42-52 µm. Outline elliptical-ovate. Three-celled, cells variable in size, gradually becoming smaller from one end of spore to the other, small apical cell semi-circular. Inaperturate. Septa dark-colored, about 4 µm wide, might be ruptured. Spore wall 2.3 µm thick, two-layered, outer layer thicker than the inner one, surface provided with scabrate-granulate sculpturing.
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Ke, Shi. 1978. (pseudonym of Sung, Z.C., Tsao, L., Chou, H.I., Kwang, H.L. & Wang, K.T.) Early Tertiary spores and pollen grains from the coastal region of the Bohai (in Chinese); Academy of Petroleum Exploration, Development and Planning Research of the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industries and the Nanjing Institute of Geology, and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kexue Chubanshe, Peking, 177 p.
K&J REMARKS Considered to be a junior synonym of Anatolinites dongyingensis (Ke & Shi) Elsik, Ediger & Bati 1990, by Elsik, Ediger & Bati (ibid.). Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) cannot see a distal pore in the illustrations provided, and consequently transfer this species to Brachysporisporites.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Multicellaesporites maximus Ke & Shi 1978, p. 38, pl. 3, fig. 21.; Brachysporisporites maximus
SERIAL NUMBER 130
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.