NAME Ornasporonites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Ornasporonites Ramanujam & Rao 1978, p. 298.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Spores brownish yellow to pale yellow, 4-celled, fusiform, diporate, cells unequal in size, basal and apical cells much smaller than two central cells; transverse septa three, central septum straight, other two septa curved. One simple pore at each end of spore along its long axis. Spore wall rugulate-reticuloid.

Monotypic.
COMMENTS* Common in the Cannanore lignite. The genus Fusiformisporites, although more or less similar in shape, differs from Ornasporonites in possessing only a single septum and it is longitudinally ribbed and inaperturate. The authors consider this spore type to represent ascospores.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Ramanujam CGK, Rao KP. 1978. Fungal spores from the Neogene strata of Kerala in South India; Proceedings of the IV International Palynological Conference, Lucknow, 1976-77, v. 1, p. 291-304.
K&J REMARKS
TYPE TYPE: Ornasporonites inaequalis Ramanujam & Rao 1978, p. 298, pl. 2, figs. 31-32.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Ornasporonites;
SERIAL NUMBER 1167
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.