NAME Multicellites bellus
AGE Eocene-Oligocene.   AGE span: 55.8...23.03 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Ke, Shi. 1978. (pseudonym of Sung, Z.C., Tsao, L., Chou, H.I., Kwang, H.L. & Wang, K.T.) Early Tertiary spores and pollen grains from the coastal region of the Bohai (in Chinese); Academy of Petroleum Exploration, Development and Planning Research of the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industries and the Nanjing Institute of Geology, and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kexue Chubanshe, Peking, 177 p.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY M. bellus (Ke & Shi) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Kenli, Shandong Province, Coastal region of Bohai, China.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spores 45 x 20 µm. Ovate. Five-celled, one end slightly contracted. Inaperturate. Septa hyaline, beset with small fissures (length 4 µm, width 1 µm). Spore wall 3 µm thick, distinctly two-layered, outer layer thicker than the inner one, wall thinner at most distal cells than elsewhere.
COMMENTS* The shape of the spores in this species resembles that of Multicellaesporites ovatus Sheffy & Dilcher 1971 (pl. 14, fig. 44). The two species are quite separate, however, as the spores described here have a thicker wall than in M. ovatus (in which the wall is 1 µm thick), and also have a larger body size.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Ke, Shi. 1978. (pseudonym of Sung, Z.C., Tsao, L., Chou, H.I., Kwang, H.L. & Wang, K.T.) Early Tertiary spores and pollen grains from the coastal region of the Bohai (in Chinese); Academy of Petroleum Exploration, Development and Planning Research of the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industries and the Nanjing Institute of Geology, and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kexue Chubanshe, Peking, 177 p.
K&J REMARKS The name of the type species is written as "bellulus" in the plate description. Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) consider that to be an orthographic error, and accept "bellus," as the epithet is spelled in the text of the description, as the correct form of the specific epithet.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Multicellaesporites bellus Ke & Shi 1978, p. 34, pl. 2, fig. 12.; Multicellites bellus
SERIAL NUMBER 1099
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.