NAME Asterothyrites Cookson 1947.
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Ascomycetes, Microthyriales.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Paramicrothallites Jain & Gupta 1970, p. 179.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Stroma radiate, more or less rounded, ostiolate, ostiole not surrounded by specialized cells, free hyphae absent.
COMMENTS* Dilcher (1965) instituted a new artificial genus Microthallites with two new species: M. lutosus, non-ostiolate and M. spinulatus, ostiolate. In view of the present studies it seems quite important, at least in case of fossil forms, to consider the presence or absence of an ostiole as a generic character to classify the dispersed microthyriaceous ascomata or thyriothecia. It is, therefore, suggested here to maintain Microthallites Dilcher 1965 only for non-ostiolate forms. The ostiolate species M. spinulatus Dilcher 1965 has been transferred to Paramicrothallites gen. nov. as its genotype.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Jain KP, Gupta RC. 1970. Some fungal remains from the Tertiaries of Kerala Coast; The Palaeobotanist, v. 18 (1969), p. 177-182.
K&J REMARKS See remarks from Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) under Asterothyrites.
TYPE TYPE: Paramicrothallites spinulatus (Dilcher 1965) Jain & Gupta 1970, p. 179.
Microthallites spinulatus Dilcher 1965, p. 17, pl. 12, fig. 92 [lectotype, selected by Jansonius and Hills (1976), card no. 1888].
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Asterothyrites Cookson 1947.;
SERIAL NUMBER 1261
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.