HdV-1042

Taxonomical Group

Fungi

Type description

Van Geel et al 2011: Ascospores 27–29×12–14 μm, thick-walled, uniseptate, constricted at septum, one cell wider and pointed, the other cell longer and rounded. Wall ‘double-layered’ (Aptroot, 1995). The lower spore illustrated in Plate II (HdV 1042b) seems to have fossilized remnants of the original thick gelatinous sheath, which is now secondarily contracted to form apiculae.

Records

First publication

van Geel B, Gelorini V, Lyaruu A, Aptroot A, Rucina S, Marchant R, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Verschuren D (2011) Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 164:174-190.