NAME Pluricellaesporites trichocladites
AGE Late Paleocene-Early Eocene.   AGE span: 58.7...40.4 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Kalgutkar RM. 1997. Fossil fungi from the lower Tertiary Iceberg Bay Formation, Eureka Sound Group, Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories, Canada; Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 97, p. 197-226.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY P. trichocladites Kalgutkar 1997, p. 221, pl. 4, fig. 9.
LOCATION Kanguk Peninsula, Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Teritories, Canada.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spores dark brown, broadly clavate, ellipsoidal, cylindrical, rounded at the apex, ovoid or obpyriform, 2- to 6- or 7-celled; septa dark, predominantly thick, up to 7 µm thick, of mostly uniform thickness; proximal cell pale, other cells mid-dark brown; spore wall thin in comparison to septal thickness. Spores 31-59 x 13-28 µm in size.
COMMENTS* Pluricellaesporites trichocladites shows resemblance to conidia of extant dematiaceous fungus Trichocladium opacum (Corda) Hughes in general morphology and in having spores ranging from 2 to many cells (pl. 4, figs. 11, 13, 9). Conidia of extant Pithomyces griminicolus Roy & Rai described by Matsushima (1989) also appear similar to spores of P. trichocladites, but are verrucose.

Etymology: Similarity to dematiaceous fungus Trichocladium Harz.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Kalgutkar RM. 1997. Fossil fungi from the lower Tertiary Iceberg Bay Formation, Eureka Sound Group, Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories, Canada; Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 97, p. 197-226.
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ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Pluricellaesporites trichocladites
SERIAL NUMBER 1422
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