NAME Selenophomites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000)
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Selenophomites Teterevnikova-Babaian & Taslakhchian 1973, p. 180 (nom. nud.).
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: [combined description] Conidia fusiform, crescent-shaped, incurved, with acute ends, unicellular, with three vacuoles [within], hyaline, 1226 x 3-5 µm.
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Teterevnikova-Babaian DN, Taslakhchian MG. 1973. New data on fossil fungal spores in Armenia; Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Mycology and Phytology, v. 4, p. 159-164.
K&J REMARKS With no illustrations of the spores, the name of the genus is not validly published, in spite of the fact that the locations where the type material was collected and is stored, are cited: Types from near Octemberian, Armenia, USSR, in Tertiary clays, at a depth of 234-242 m, between Upper Paleogene and lower Neogene strata, [VII 1964, E. Eramian - meaning of this unclear: date, name of collector?]; permanent preparation conserved at Faculty of Cryptogam Botany, University of Erevan.
TYPE TYPE: Selenophomites urartii Teterevnikova-Babaian & Taslakhchian 1973, p. 180 (no illustration; nom. nud.).
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Selenophomites;
SERIAL NUMBER 1558
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.