NAME Pluricellaesporites cooksoniae
AGE Middle Cretaceous.   AGE span: 130...85.8 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Cookson IC, Eisenack A. 1979. Einige Algen aus Sedimenten der Kreide Australiens; Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2, p. 77-82.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY P. cooksoniae Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Eucla basin, western Australia.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* 52 x 14 µm (juvenile forms 32 x 8.5 µm, 38 x 9 µm, 52 x 10 µm); apical end rounded, the rather long, tapered antapical end differentiated in a very gradual manner. Apical cell hemispherical, followed by three pairs of cells, and again by single cells that narrow gradually towards the antapex, the last cell of the thin "tail" strongly elongate and slender. In juvenile forms fewer cells. [Jansonius & Hills (1982), card no. 4025.]
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Cookson IC, Eisenack A. 1979. Einige Algen aus Sedimenten der Kreide Australiens; Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2, p. 77-82.

Jansonius J, Hills LV. 1982. Genera file of fossil spores - supplement 6;Special Publication, Department of Geology, University of Calgary, cards 3933-4056.
K&J REMARKS See remarks from Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) under the genus Piriurella.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Piriurella elongata Cookson & Eisenack 1979, p. 79, pl. 1, fig. 9.
Non Pluricellaesporites elongatus Srivastava 1968, p. 1116, pl. 1, fig. 6
[=Fractisporonites elongatus (Srivastava) comb. nov.].; Pluricellaesporites cooksoniae
SERIAL NUMBER 1369
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.