NAME Lirasporis elongatus
AGE (Middle-Lower) Miocene.   AGE span: 20.43...13.82 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti?, Dictyosporae?
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY L. elongatus Kar 1990, p. 196, pl. 8, fig. 117.
LOCATION Rokhia borehole; Tripura, north-east India.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Fungal bodies oval with elongated ends, 135 x 60 µm, broader in the middle and tapering at lateral sides. Mycelia longitudinally and transversally septate, spore wall levigate.
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Kar RK. 1990. Palynology of Miocene and Mio-Pliocene sediments of north-east India; Journal of Palynology, v. 26, p. 171-217.
K&J REMARKS Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) learned about this species only after the plates had been finalized, and were not able to provide an illustration. Its overall structure and appearance is strikingly similar to that of L. intergranifer; however, its outline is not elliptical, but tapers at the narrow ends in much the same way that elongate onion bulbs will taper: the (presumed) proximal end is somewhat flattened, the other end tapers to a single pointed cell, or is extended by a few cylindrical cells.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Lirasporis elongatus
SERIAL NUMBER 894
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.