NAME Palambages
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Dictyosporae.
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FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Palambages Wetzel 1961, p. 338.
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ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: [combined description] Spheroidal bodies, composed of many (8-18?) oval membranous cells, sometimes with a flat peripheral portion (with aperture?).
COMMENTS* Derivatio nominis: Latin palaeo = old; ambages = going round, winding, ambiguous.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Wetzel O. 1961. New microfossils from Baltic Cretaceous flintstones; Micropaleontology, v. 7, p. 337-350.
K&J REMARKS Palambages is characterized by cells or spores arranged in clusters of varying sizes, similar to groups of spores that occur in the fossil fungal genus Polyadosporites. In Palambages, the colonies are membranous and consist of thin-walled, hyaline cells; in Polyadosporites, the spores in colonies are thicker-walled and pigmented. Colonies of Palambages are similar in appearance to coenobia of colonial algae.
TYPE TYPE: Palambages morulosa, p. 338, pl. 1, fig. 11.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Palambages;
SERIAL NUMBER 1230
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.