NAME Diplodites rodei
AGE Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).   AGE span: 70.6...65.5 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Sphaeropsidales.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Mahabalé TS. 1969. On a fossil species of Diplodia from the Intertrappean Series, Madhya Pradesh, India; The Palaeobotanist, v. 17 (1968), p. 295-297.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY D. rodei (Mahabalé) Kalgutkar, Nambudiri & Tidwell 1993, p. 115.
LOCATION Mohgaonkalan locality in Chhindwara District, Madya Pradesh, India.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Well preserved, two-celled, oval-oblong spores, 17.5-18 x 7.5 µm, smooth, thick-walled, purple, placed in a thick-walled pycnidium embedded in decaying tissues of monocotyledonous plants, preserved in a small Intertrappean chert of olivaceous brown color. The mycelium septate, conidium terminal and unbranched.
COMMENTS* The species has been named after Professor K.P. Rode of the University of Udaipur, whose discovery of this classical Tertiary locality of India at Mohgaon Kalan (M.P.) has added materially to our knowledge of the flora of the Deccan Intertrappean Series.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Mahabalé TS. 1969. On a fossil species of Diplodia from the Intertrappean Series, Madhya Pradesh, India; The Palaeobotanist, v. 17 (1968), p. 295-297.
K&J REMARKS Mahabale didn"t illustrate the pycnidium (of which only a small part of the wall is shown); consequently, it is not represented on Kalgutkar and Jansonius's (2000) Plate 28.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Diplodia rodei Mahabalé 1969, Specimen No. MK 1/65, Slide No. MK 1/65 (1).; Diplodites rodei
SERIAL NUMBER 344
PUBLIC COMMENTS Classification: Eukaryota; Opisthokonta; Fungi; Dikarya; Ascomycota; saccharomyceta; Pezizomycotina; leotiomyceta; dothideomyceta; Dothideomycetes
Classification: Botryosphaeriaceae (?)Structures: Ascospores or conidia
 *For source, see Publication Reference.