NAME Dictyosporites globimuriformis
AGE Late Paleocene-Early Eocene.   AGE span: 58.7...40.4 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Dictyosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Kalgutkar RM. 1997. Fossil fungi from the lower Tertiary Iceberg Bay Formation, Eureka Sound Group, Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories, Canada; Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 97, p. 197-226.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY D. globimuriformis Kalgutkar 1997, p. 211, pl. 1, fig. 17.
LOCATION Kanguk Peninsula, Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories, Canada.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spores multicellular, muriform, inaperturate, smooth, pale to dark brown, consisting of few to many cells to form an unevenly muriate spherical group. Spores globose, circular, multiseptate with regular longitudinal and transverse septa. Central group of cells more or less isodiametric, surrounded by a peripheral layer of elongated rectangular cells. Basal cell roughly triangular, protruding, light colored to hyaline (in fig. 17 at 7 o'clock). Spore diameter 20-30 µm.
COMMENTS* Resembling terminal chlamydospores of Monodictys Hughes as illustrated by Pirozynski & Weresub (1979; pl. 2, fig. 18) or the conidia of Monodictys (Ellis, 1971).

Etymology: Named for rounded and muriform nature of spores.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Kalgutkar RM. 1997. Fossil fungi from the lower Tertiary Iceberg Bay Formation, Eureka Sound Group, Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories, Canada; Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 97, p. 197-226.
K&J REMARKS Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) now think that this species does not resemble the conidia of Monodictys.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Dictyosporites globimuriformis
SERIAL NUMBER 296
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.