NAME Brefeldiellites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Ascomycetes, Microthyriales.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Brefeldiellites Dilcher 1965, p. 25.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Hyphae produce a large, rounded, mostly confluent membrane, which is radiately prosenchymatous, fan shaped, with marginal fertile areas or ascomata conspicuous. Central ascoma cells break away as a dehiscence mechanism. Spores unknown. Monotypic.
COMMENTS* This is the first report of this group in the fossil record. This fossil form is similar to the modern genus Brefeldiella but can not be placed in it because the spores are not known. Therefore the genus Brefeldiellites was established for forms similar to the modern genus Brefeldiella, for which spores are unknown.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Dilcher DL. 1965. Epiphyllous fungi from Eocene deposits in western Tennessee, U.S.A.; Palaeontographica, Abt. B, v. 116, p. 1-54.
K&J REMARKS Although Dilcher did not designate a holotype, but syntypes (all resulting from a single collection), Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) consider that the name was validly published, in accordance with ICBN Art. 8.1, which states that: "for small herbaceous plants and most non-vascular plants, the type may consist of more than one individual ... conserved permanently on one ... microscope slide, or in one equivalent preparation, e.g. a box ...." Fossil plants are not excepted from this tolerant Rule.

Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) select a lectotype from these syntypes; it is permanently preserved in the paleobotanical collections of the Peabody Natural History Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
TYPE TYPE: Brefeldiellites fructiflabellus Dilcher 1965, p. 25, pl. 13, fig. 108 [lectotype (epitype), selected by Jansonius and Hills (1976), card no. 311].
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Brefeldiellites;
SERIAL NUMBER 138
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.