NAME Pluricellaesporites verrucatus
AGE Early Miocene.   AGE span: 23.03...15.97 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Singh HP, Saxena RK, Rao MR. 1986. Palynology of the Barail (Oligocene) and Surma (Lower Miocene) sediments exposed along Sonapur-Badarpur Road section, Jaintia Hills (Meghalaya) and Cachar (Assam). Part II. Fungal remains; The Palaeobotanist, v. 35, p. 93-105.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY P. verrucatus Singh, Saxena & Rao 1986, p. 100, pl. 2, fig. 20.
LOCATION Surma group, Sonapur-Badarpur Road section, Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya and Cachar, Assam, India.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Fungal spore elongate, with one end wider and the other end tubular. Size 111 x 33 µm, 18-celled, cells wider in the middle than those towards the apertural end. Monoporate, pore apically placed at the narrower end. Septa 1-1.5 µm thick. Spore wall 1 µm thick, granulose-verrucose. Surface view giving a verrucose appearance.
COMMENTS* This species can be differentiated from all the other species of Pluricellaesporites by having a verrucose spore wall.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Singh HP, Saxena RK, Rao MR. 1986. Palynology of the Barail (Oligocene) and Surma (Lower Miocene) sediments exposed along Sonapur-Badarpur Road section, Jaintia Hills (Meghalaya) and Cachar (Assam). Part II. Fungal remains; The Palaeobotanist, v. 35, p. 93-105.
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ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Pluricellaesporites verrucatus
SERIAL NUMBER 1425
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.