NAME Multicellaesporites songii
AGE Early - Middle Miocene.   AGE span: 23.03...11.608 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Song Z. 1985. A research on Tertiary palynology from the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province; Edited by Research Institute of Exploration and Development, Qinghai Petroleum Administration, and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinicia, 297 p. (in Chinese). Petroleum Industry Press.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY M.? songii Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Jiandingshan, Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, China.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Holotype 70 x 15 µm, composed of 6 cells. Outline elliptic-fusiform, tapering from middle part towards the two ends. The height of single cell is larger than its width. Septa 5, becoming lighter towards the end, without septal folds, but probably with a pore. Spore wall about 1 µm thick, composed of two layers, surface smooth or scabrate, brown. Each end cell has a pore; pore flat and simple.
COMMENTS* This species can be distinguished from other known species of the genus by its elongated shape and the character of the septa.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Song Z. 1985. A research on Tertiary palynology from the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province; Edited by Research Institute of Exploration and Development, Qinghai Petroleum Administration, and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinicia, 297 p. (in Chinese). Petroleum Industry Press.
K&J REMARKS Song assigned this form to Diporicellaesporites, but Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) could not convincingly see pores at both terminal poles. Rather, Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) saw at one (the lower) end a small incision, that lines up with the longitudinal furrow that is well expressed near the left margin. The other pole is out of focus, but careful scrutiny does not show, in Kalgutkar and Jansonius's (2000) opinion, the presence there of a pore. However, there is a linear dark feature extending the longitudinal furrow. Although with some reservation, because of the conflict between the original description and Kalgutkar and Jansonius's (2000) interpretation of the photo of the type specimen, Kalgutkar and Jansonius believe that a transfer to Multicellaesporites is in order.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Diporicellaesporites lanceolatus Song Zhichen 1985, p. 50, pl. 1, fig. 29.
Non Multicellaesporites lanceolatus Ke & Shi 1978 [Now = Multicellites lanceolatus (Ke & Shi) comb. nov.].; Multicellaesporites songii
SERIAL NUMBER 1087
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.