NAME Dictyosporites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Dictyosporae.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Dictyosporites Felix 1894, p. 277; emend.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: As for the type species [combined description].

DIAGNOSIS AS EMENDED Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000): Inaperturate, multicellate (apparently by internal septation, of irregular pattern), muriform fungal spores, cells rounded to rounded polygonal. Overall shape rounded, oval/ovoid to elongate; indentations may occur where septa intersect the amb. A hilum cannot be discerned.

Staphlosporonites differs in showing a distinct hilum, or proximal hilar cell. Papulosporonites consists of spore clusters or aggregates, in which there is no suggestion of linear or planar symmetry.
COMMENTS* As for the type species.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Felix J. 1894. Studien über fossile Pilze; Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, v. 46, p. 269-280.
K&J REMARKS Different species of Dictyosporites are comparable to the conidia of some modern genera like Dictyosporium, Stemphylium, Septosporium and Alternaria, all belonging to dematiaceous hyphomycetes, and the ascospores of Pleospora. As things stand, the diagnosis of the fossil form-genus Pleosporonites Lange & Smith 1971 can not meaningfully be differentiated from that of Dictyosporites. Spores of Pleosporonites hyalinus Lange & Smith 1971 resemble the ascospores of extant Pleospora.

Vishnu-Mittre (1975) reported various fungal remains from Flandrian deposits in the Whittlesey Mere region, Hunts, England and compared multicellular spores with parallel and cross walls (pl. 2, figs. 38-40) with conidia of modern Stemphylium. Spores comparable to modern Pleospora have been identified from the Holocene of the Netherlands (van Geel, 1978), East African Lake sediments and alluvial deposits of the Late Pleistocene and Eocene (Wolf, 1966a,b, 1967a,b, 1968, 1969a,b, 1970), and the Deccan Intertrappean beds of India (Chitaley, 1980).
TYPE TYPE: Dictyosporites loculatus Felix 1894, p. 277, pl. 19, fig. 2a [lectotype, selected by Jansonius & Hills (1976), card no. 787].
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Arbusculites Paradkar 1976.
Dactylosporites Paradkar 1976.
Pleosporonites Lange & Smith 1971.
Ravenelites Ramanujam & Ramachar 1980. ; Dictyosporites;
SERIAL NUMBER 288
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.