NAME Dictyosporites hyalinus
AGE Early-Middle Eocene.   AGE span: 55.8...37.2 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Dictyosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Lange RT, Smith PH. 1971. The Maslin Bay flora, South Australia. 3. Dispersed fungal spores; Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, no. 11, p. 663-681.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY D. hyalinus (Lange & Smith) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Maslin Bay, South Australia.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spores muriform, ellipsoid to ovoid in outline, of many hyaline thin-walled polyhedral cells irregularly arranged; the spore more than one cell thick. Observed lengths 24-28 µm, observed widths 10-17 µm.
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Lange RT, Smith PH. 1971. The Maslin Bay flora, South Australia. 3. Dispersed fungal spores; Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, no. 11, p. 663-681.
K&J REMARKS As for the genus. The transfer of this species, the type of Pleosporonites, makes the latter a junior taxonomic synonym of Dictyosporites.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Pleosporonites hyalinus Lange & Smith 1971, p. 672, pl. 6, fig. B.; Dictyosporites hyalinus
SERIAL NUMBER 298
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.