NAME Caldesites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Ascomycetes, Microthyriales
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Caldesites Puri 1963, p. 16.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: (combined description): These are two large ascospores of more or less the same size, lying partly one on the other. The larger measures 42 x nearly 20 µm (in the broadest part). The smaller spore is only a little smaller in dimensions. Both of these seem to be broken at the basal portion. They are thin-walled and are divided into more or less equal halves by the equatorial wall.
COMMENTS* Resembles ascospores of Caldesia sabina; those of Asterina melastomatis are much smaller.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Puri GS. 1963. Some Plant-micro-fossils from the Cretaceous and Paleocene of Nigeria; University of Ibadan Botanical Studies, No. 10, p. 1-142.
K&J REMARKS
TYPE TYPE: Caldesites nigerianus Puri 1963, p. 16, pl. 1, fig. 18.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Caldesites;
SERIAL NUMBER 148
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.