NAME Monodictyites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000)
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Monodictyites Barlinge & Paradkar 1982, p. 168 (nom. nud.).
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: [combined description] Fungus saprophytic; hyphae septate, branched; conidiospores with thick stalks; conidia multicellular, dictyosporous and medium-thick walled, 12-40 x 16-28 µm; found in decaying tissue of the host.
COMMENTS* The various stages of conidial development are comparable to the living form Monodictys Hughes of Moniliales (Subramanian, 1971). The fungus also resembles the genera Piricauda and Stigmella of the same order but differs from them in not having a thin stalk for conidiospores. Moreover, these two genera have spores with lesser number of cells.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Barlinge SG, Paradkar SA. 1982. Record of the new fossil algal and fungal forms from the Deccan lntertrappean of Mohgaon-Kalan. M. P., India; The Botanique, v. 18 (1979), p. 163-175.
K&J REMARKS Not validly published, because no illustration of the fossil form was provided. The authors illustrated, on their plate 1, figs. F, H, and in the text-figs. HO, spores and mycelium of (extant) Monodictys.
TYPE TYPE: Monodictyites intertrappeus, Barlinge & Paradkar 1982, p. 168; holotype slide F3B, Dept. Bot., Inst. Sci., Nagpur, India (not illustrated; nom. nud.).
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Monodictyites;
SERIAL NUMBER 958
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.