NAME Reduviasporonites magnus
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. magnus (Doubinger & Pons) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Cerrejon basin, Colombia.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spore large, bicellular (length 48 µm), light brown, inaperturate and smooth. The cells are of equal size and rounded at the ends; the width, which is 26 µm at the centre of each cell, is no more than 11.5 µm at the septum. The septum is not thickened (0.6 µm). The walls of the spore are very thin (0.3 µm) and fragile. [Unedited translation from French; GSC Calgary Library, Translation No. T4047624.]
COMMENTS* Dicellaesporites popovii described by Elsik (1968), has a thicker wall and shows no constriction at the septum. [Unedited translation from French; GSC Calgary Library, Translation No. T4047624.]
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.
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TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Dicellaesporites magnus Doubinger & Pons 1973, p. 246, pl. 3, fig. 5.; Reduviasporonites magnus
SERIAL NUMBER 1519
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.