NAME Triporicellaesporites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Staurosporae.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Triporicellaesporites Ke & Shi 1978, p. 50; emend.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Spores triangular-lenticular in shape, outline triangular in polar view. Triporate, pores situated at corners of triangle, prominent, might be vestibulate. Multicellular, cells in triangulate [triaxial?] arrangement. Spore wall of medium thickness, surface psilate or provided with granulate to indistinct finely reticulate sculpturing.

DIAGNOSIS AS EMENDED (Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000): Pluricellate fungal spores with triangular to inverted V-shaped outline, with a central (stalked) hilum; the two lateral wings or appendages may be closed terminally, but commonly are preserved with the distalmost cells lacking; spore wall smooth.
COMMENTS* This genus is distinguished from all other genera of fossil fungal spores by the fact that its members are both multicellular and triporate and exhibit a triangular to chevron-shaped outline.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Ke, Shi. 1978. (pseudonym of Sung, Z.C., Tsao, L., Chou, H.I., Kwang, H.L. & Wang, K.T.) Early Tertiary spores and pollen grains from the coastal region of the Bohai (in Chinese); Academy of Petroleum Exploration, Develapment and Planning Research of the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industries and the Nanjing Institute of Geology, and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kexue Chubanshe, Peking, 177 p.
K&J REMARKS The spores of T. elongatus and T. simplex are very similar to spores of the extant Ceratosporella bicornis (Morgan) Höhnel 1923.
TYPE TYPE: Triporicellaesporites triangulus Ke & Shi 1978, p. 50, pl. 5, fig. 15.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Triporicellaesporites;
SERIAL NUMBER 1749
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.