NAME Foveodiporites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Amerosporae.
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FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Foveodiporites Varma & Rawat 1963, p. 133, emend.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Pollen grains diporate. Exine foveolate.

DIAGNOSIS AS HERE EMENDED: Monocellate diporate fungal spores of mostly medium (ca 15-60 μm) size; overall shape fusiform to elliptic, but characteristically somewhat lob-sided, with one side of the outline more convex than the other; spore wall relatively thin, externally essentially smooth, internally smooth, or with punctate, granulate, foveloate or similar sculpture; pores terminal, complex, consisting of a thin collar and separated from the spore interior by one or two septa (the latter forming a pore chamber); pore regions often with darker pigmentation.
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Varma CP, Rawat MS. 1963. A note on some diporate grains recovered from Tertiary horizons of India and their potential marker value; Grana Palynologica, v. 4, p. 130-139.
K&J REMARKS Although originally described as pollen, these forms are now generally recognized as fungal spores. Elsik (1968), invalidly, published the new combination Diporisporites anklesvarensis (Varma & Rawat), which would have made Foveodiporites a taxonomic junior synonym of Diporisporites. However, Elsik later (1992, unpublished) maintained Foveodiporites as characterized by the internal sculpture and the pore chambers at both ends of the spore.

Punctodiporites is a junior synonym of Foveodiporites as emended by Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000). Norris (1997) assigned a new species with coarse internal sculpture to Punctodiporites (P. foedus); however, he did not emend the diagnosis of that genus, or explicitly include Foveodiporites as a synonym of his generic concept. Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) transfer this species to Foveodiporites, as F. foedus (Norris) comb. nov.
TYPE TYPE: Foveodiporites anklesvarensis Varma & Rawat 1963, p. 133, fig. 11. Punctodiporites Varma & Rawat 1963.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Foveodiporites;
SERIAL NUMBER 565
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.