NAME Palynomorphites diversiformis
AGE Carboniferous.   AGE span: 359.2...299 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Incertae Sedis.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Moore LR. 1963. Microbiological colonization and attack on some Carboniferous miospores; Palaeontology, v. 6, p. 349-372.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY P. diversiformis Moore 1963, p. 356, pl. 54, fig. 13.
LOCATION Chert Band, Midhope Burn, Upper Oil Shale Group of Calciferous Sandstone Series (Scotland).
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Coccoid or ovoid cells 0.75 -1.5 µm, arranged in a linear "end-on" position, and associated aseptate filaments 0.75-1.5 µm. Cell walls dark and well defined; cell contents highly refractive, colorless or pale yellow. The filaments may be straight, flexuous, or curved, or exhibit simple bifurcation to produce a rounded or reticulate pattern. At the point of bifurcation a rounded cell is present and filaments may terminate in a swollen rounded cell. Coccoid cells may occur alone as on Punctatisporites, pl. 55, fig. 10, or be associated with beaded filaments only as on Punctatisporites, pl. 56, fig. 2c. Filaments both beaded and non-beaded may occur in close association and of very variable length. They may occur together or singly without the normal association of coccoid cells. These features are exemplified in Lycospora, pl. 54, fig. 11.
COMMENTS* Palynomorphites diversiformis in certain characteristics bears resemblance to Anthracomyces cannellensis Renault (1900, pl. 22, figs. 4-10; Text-fig. 24), but the latter (Renault 1900, p. 334) was defined as " a plant 5-6 µm high, with straight branching or sinuous filaments 2-2.9 µm long and 0.85 µm wide".
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Moore LR. 1963. Microbiological colonization and attack on some Carboniferous miospores; Palaeontology, v. 6, p. 349-372.
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ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Palynomorphites diversiformis
SERIAL NUMBER 1245
PUBLIC COMMENTS
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