Fungalpedia – Note 342, Incertisporites (Fossil fungi)

 

Incertisporites Hammen 1954.

Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi. 

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1

Classification: Fossil Fungi, Incertae sedis, Amerosporae.

The monotypic fossil genus Incertisporite was instituted by Hammen (1954) from the Maastrichtian (72–66 mya) sediments of the Magdalena Valley, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia, South America. Incertisporite includes fungal spores of indefinite type.

Type species: Incertisporites polygranulatus Hammen 1954.

 

 

Figure 1 – Incertisporites polygranulatus. Scale bar = 20 μm. Redrawn from Van der Hammen (1954).

 

References

Van der Hammen T. 1954 – El desarrollo de la flora Colombiana en los periodos geologicos–1. Maestrichtiano hasta Terciaro mas inferior (Una investigacion Palinologica de la formacion de Guaduas y equivalentes). Boletin Geologico (Bogota) 2(1), 49–106.

 

Entry by

Ramesh K. Saxena, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India

 

(Edited by Kevin D. Hyde, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)

 

Published online 27 August 2024

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