NAME Leptonema
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Phycomycetes, Peronosporales.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Leptonema J. Smith 1896, p. 321.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: [combined description] A much-branching form, generally springing from a shred of vegetable matter. Branches the forty-thousandth of an inch, covered with darkish, globular fruit, the twenty-thousandth of an inch [=1.3 µm] in diameter.
COMMENTS* As for the type species.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Smith J. 1896. On the discovery of fossil microscopic plants in the fossil amber of the Ayrshire coal-field; Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, v. 10, p. 318-322.
K&J REMARKS
TYPE TYPE: Leptonema tenuis J. Smith 1896, p. 321, pl. 7, fig. 19.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Leptonema;
SERIAL NUMBER 887
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.