NAME Reduviasporonites cerrejonensis
AGE Paleocene-Eocene.   AGE span: 65.5...33.9 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Doubinger J, Pons D. 1973. Les champignons épiphylles du Tertiaire de Colombie. I. Le gisement de Cerrejón (Paléocène-Éocène); 96e Congrès National des Sociétés savantes, Toulouse, 1971, Sciences, v. 5, p. 233-252.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY R. cerrejonensis (Doubinger & Pons) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Cerrejon basin, Colombia, South America.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Elements inaperturate, smooth, brown, arranged in line and decreasing in size. There are generally 5 fine-walled cells. Length x width varies from 8-20 x 8-20 µm for each cell. The total length varies from 55-85 µm. The cells are very variable in form (spherical, oval, flat) and are always crushed. At the four septa, a pronounced constriction is apparent but is difficult to measure, and the entire structure is slightly arcuate (beaded forms). The smallest element is often less pigmented and continues as a filament of a sooty color. These forms appear to be aligned on the host cuticle. [Unedited translation from French; GSC Calgary Library, Translation No. 4047624.]
COMMENTS* Usually, species included in the genus Multicellaesporites do not have constriction this pronounced at the septa. [Unedited translation from French; GSC Calgary Library, Translation No. 4047624.]
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Doubinger J, Pons D. 1973. Les champignons épiphylles du Tertiaire de Colombie. I. Le gisement de Cerrejón (Paléocène-Éocène); 96e Congrès National des Sociétés savantes, Toulouse, 1971, Sciences, v. 5, p. 233-252.
K&J REMARKS The filamentous moniliform and multicellular spores comprising globose constricted cells in a uniserial chain, that tends to taper distally, suggest affinity to Reduviasporonites. In Cercosporites Salmon 1903, the smaller cell is a proximal hilate hold-fast.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Multicellaesporites cerrejonensis Doubinger & Pons 1973, p. 248, pl. 5, figs. 3-6.; Reduviasporonites cerrejonensis
SERIAL NUMBER 1517
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.