NAME Palaeophoma
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Sphaeropsidales
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Palaeophoma Singhai 1974, p. 94.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Pycnidium brown, more or less spherical; conidia 1-celled, hyaline, bent or curved or lunate or spherical, thick-walled; [pycnidium] pseudoparenchymatous, ostiole not seen.

Monotypic.
COMMENTS* One-celled hyaline, bent or curved or lunate conidia, and a spherical and brown pycnidium have been shared by the living genus Selenophoma Maire (Barnett, 1960). But the fossil fungus also possesses spherical conidia in addition, which are not present in Selenophoma. The present fungus having non-ostiolate pycnidium thus distinctly differs from Selenophoma which possesses a definite ostiole.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Singhai LC. 1974. Fossil fungi from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Madhya Pradesh, India; Journal of Biological Sciences, v. 17, p. 92-102.
K&J REMARKS
TYPE TYPE: Palaeophoma intertrappea Singhai 1974, p. 94, Slide No. 72.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Palaeophoma;
SERIAL NUMBER 1224
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.