NAME Reduviasporonites ramosus
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. 1993. Paleogene fungal palynomorphs from Bonnet Plume Formation, Yukon Territory; Contributions to Canadian Paleontology, Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 444, p. 51-105.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY R. ramosus Kalgutkar 1993, p. 87, pl. 4.4, fig. 13.
LOCATION Peel River, Yukon Territory, Canada.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spores distinctive, dark to mid brown, uniseriate, comprising many cells of variable sizes arranged in branched rows of moniliform chains. Cells smooth, spherical to ovoid, barrel-shaped to elongate, varying between 7 and 15 µm in length; cells somewhat flattened, thickened and little indented at contact between cells.
COMMENTS* This species differs from Reduviasporonites catenulatus Wilson 1962 by its branching habit and variable sizes of its cells.

Etymology: From the Latin, ramosus, branched.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Kalgutkar RM. 1993. Paleogene fungal palynomorphs from Bonnet Plume Formation, Yukon Territory; Contributions to Canadian Paleontology, Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 444, p. 51-105.
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ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Reduviasporonites ramosus
SERIAL NUMBER 1522
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.