NAME Dictyotopileos
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Ascomycetes, Microthyriales.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Dictyotopileos Dilcher 1965, p. 33.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Stroma large, round to linear, polyostiolate, radiate under a reticulate covering of hyphae. Free hyphae present. Spores not positively identified. Monotypic.
COMMENTS* The genus Dictyotopileos is established for several stromata which appear to be parasitic upon the upper epidermis of Chrysobalanus sp. The large size and polyostiolate and reticulate nature of the stroma of this genus set it apart from any other genus in the Dictyopeltoideae and the entire Micropeltaceae. Free hyphae and spores were found associated with this form but cannot be positively assigned to it.
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
TYPE TYPE: Dictyotopileos yalensis Dilcher 1965, p. 33, pl. 21, fig. 164 [lectotype, here selected].
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Dictyotopileos;
SERIAL NUMBER 309
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.