NAME Heterocystinella bulbosa
AGE Middle Cretaceous.   AGE span: 130...85.8 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Cookson IC, Eisenack A. 1979. Einige Algen aus Sedimenten der Kreide Australiens; Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2, p. 77-82.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY H. bulbosa Cookson & Eisenack 1979, p. 79, pl. 1, fig. 13.
LOCATION Eucla basin, Western Australia.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Overall length 92 µm; cell diameters respectively 64, 24, 10 and 4 µm. Coenobium of four cells, arranged in a row in order of decreasing size. A few additional small cells adhere to this chain; two to the second cell, and several more at various places on the largest cell. [Jansonius & Hills (1982), card no. 3982.]
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Cookson IC, Eisenack A. 1979. Einige Algen aus Sedimenten der Kreide Australiens; Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2, p. 77-82.

Jansonius J, Hills LV. 1982. Genera file of fossil spores - supplement 6;Special Publication, Department of Geology, University of Calgary, cards 3933-4056.
K&J REMARKS "The smaller cells appear thinner and lighter than the three larger cells, and may be incidental contaminants, rather than structurally being part of the chain. Eisenack suggested affinity to the Algae; Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) consider this form a possible multicelled fungal spore." [Jansonius & Hills (1982), card no. 3982.]
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Heterocystinella bulbosa
SERIAL NUMBER 686
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.