NAME Palaeophthora
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Phycomycetes, Peronosporales.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Palaeophthora Singhai 1978, p. 483.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Mycelium intracellular, branched, aseptate, sporangia either isolate or in organic connection at the tip of the mycelium, rounded or elongated, columella not present; sexual reproduction heterogamous, represented by rounded oogonia and narrow tube-like antheridia; oogonium having sac-like bodies on its wall; oospore (zygospore) with thick and rough outer wall.

Monotypic.
COMMENTS* As for the type species.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Singhai LC. 1978. Palaeophthora mohgaoensis Singhai - A fossil fungus from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan, Chhindwara District, M. P., India; The Palaeobotanist, v. 25 (1976), p. 481-485.
K&J REMARKS
TYPE TYPE: Palaeophthora mohgaonensis Singhai 1978, p. 483, pl. 1, figs. 1-5. (Holotype represented by three slides in author's collection, nos. 41, 64 and 80.)
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Palaeophthora;
SERIAL NUMBER 1226
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.