Fungalpedia – Note 165, Circinoconites (Fossil Fungi)

 

Circinoconites R. Kar, Mand. & R.K. Kar.

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

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

Classification: Phragmosporae. Fossil Ascomycota, Fungi

Kar et al. (2010) instituted Circinoconites from the Bhuban Formation (Early Miocene, 23–16 mya) in Tlangsam, Mizoram, India with the following diagnosis: Fungal conidia are conidia acrogenous, strongly spiraled, solitary, coiled, not in chains or slime, and 8–14 septate, fist-shaped, dark brown, constricted at septa, cells increasing in diameter from base to apex, dissimilar, spirally arranged. Only one species listed in Index Fungorum (2023) under this genus.

Type species: Circinoconites arthrus R. Kar, Mand. & R.K. Kar.

 

 

Figure 1 – Circinoconites arthrus. Scale bar = 10 μm. Redrawn from Kar et al. (2010).

 

References

Kar R, Mandaokar BD, Kar RK. 2010 – Fungal taxa from the Miocene sediments of Mizoram, northeast India. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 158, 240–249.

 

Entry by

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

 

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