NAME Foliopollenites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti?, Amerosporae?
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Foliopollenites Sierotin 1961, p. 55.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: [combined description] Shaped like a tapered leaf; whole surface is covered with numerous spines of a little over 1 µm long; exine two-layered, a little more than 1 µm thick; surface chagrinate; size 27 x 21 µm. [Jansonius & Hills (1976), card no. 1029].
COMMENTS* Unlike any other described form; among the hystrichospheres a similar form is also not known. [Jansonius & Hills (1976), card no. 1029].
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Sierotin T. 1961. Sporae dispersae im Rhät und Lias von Grossbellhofen (Mittelfranken); Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Freien Universität Berlin, 77 p.
K&J REMARKS Potonié (1966, p. 199) quoted a letter from Sierotin that "possibly this is a microfossil that can be assigned elsewhere" [than in the flowering plants]. Possibly similar to Uncinulites baccarinii Pampaloni 1902?
TYPE TYPE: Foliopollenites spinosus Sierotin 1961, p. 55, pl. 5, fig. 22.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Foliopollenites;
SERIAL NUMBER 559
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.