NAME Diporicellaesporites elegans
AGE Late Eocene-Middle Oligocene.   AGE span: 37.2...28.4 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Song Z, Li G, Cao L, Luo H, Sun Z. 1989. Early Tertiary sporo-pollen assemblages from the Dongpu region; Edited by Research Institute of Exploration and Development, Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica. 192 p.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY D. elegans Song & Luo, in Song Zhichen, Li Guangxing, Cao Liu, Luo Haicen & Sun Zihua 1989, p. 44, pl. 4, fig. 12.
LOCATION Shahejie Formation: Shenxian county of Shandong Province, China.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spores spindle-shaped, holotype 32 x 15 (at widest point) µm. Spores multicellular, holotype five-celled, tapering at both ends, slightly but distinctly constricted at the septa; septa four, discoidal, without septal folds. Pores terminal, small and simple. Spore wall about 1 µm in thickness, surface smooth.
COMMENTS* This species is similar to Diporicellaesporites stacyi Elsik, but differs in its rather flat cells, the septa having no septal folds, and smooth surface. The new species is also similar to Diporicellaesporites dolium (Early Tertiary palynology from the coast of the Bohai Sea [Ke & Shi, 1978], p. 49, pl. 5, fig. 21), but the spores in the latter are elliptical, wider and somewhat barrel-shaped.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Song Z, Li G, Cao L, Luo H, Sun Z. 1989. Early Tertiary sporo-pollen assemblages from the Dongpu region; Edited by Research Institute of Exploration and Development, Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica. 192 p.
K&J REMARKS The single figure illustrated appears to have some longitudinal septa, subdividing the central three cells (that themselves are separated by two transverse septa).
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Diporicellaesporites elegans
SERIAL NUMBER 364
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.