NAME Spegazzinites tetradus
AGE Late Cretaceous-Middle Eocene.   AGE span: 88.6...40.4 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Staurosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Rouse GE. 1962. Plant microfossils from the Burrard Formation of western British Columbia; Micropaleontology, v. 8, p. 187-218.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY S. tetradus (Rouse) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Burrard Formation, Terminal Dock, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Spores in a linear tetrad configuration. Individual spores subtriangular to circular in outline, deep melanin brown in color. Size-range of tetrads 16-20 µm.
COMMENTS* These look, at first glance, like pollen grains of the Ericaceae, but they have a much smaller size and are of melanin color and in a linear rather than tetrahedral configuration.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Rouse GE. 1962. Plant microfossils from the Burrard Formation of western British Columbia; Micropaleontology, v. 8, p. 187-218.
K&J REMARKS Similar morphology is seen in Quadrisporites Hennelly 1959 and Spegazzinites Felix 1894. Quadrisporites now is considered to belong to the blue-green algae (Batten, 1996, vol. 1, p. 191).
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Inapertisporites tetradus Rouse 1962, p. 210, pl. 5, fig. 17.; Spegazzinites tetradus
SERIAL NUMBER 1574
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.