NAME Fractisporonites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
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SPECIES, AUTHORITY Fractisporonites Clarke 1965, p. 91.
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ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Fungal spores uniseriate, fragments consist of four to many rectangular to square cells, sides generally parallel.
COMMENTS* The prefix of the generic name is derived from the Latin word fractus meaning broken.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Clarke RT. 1965. Fungal spores from Vermejo Formation coal beds (Upper Cretaceous) of central Colorado; Mountain Geologist, v. 2, p. 85-93.
K&J REMARKS Fractisporonites is for (fragments of) very long fungal spores that generally show breaks at both ends, which differentiates it from all other psilate scalariform species, except those from "Alternoseptites" (nom. nud.; Elsik, 1992, unpublished, in prep.), the outline of which shows an indentation at every second septum.
TYPE TYPE: Fractisporonites canalis Clarke 1965, p. 91, pl. 1, fig. 6.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Fractisporonites;
SERIAL NUMBER 587
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 *For source, see Publication Reference.