NPP

Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database

NPP

...“extra fossils“ in pollen slides

HdV-1053

NPP type

Taxonomical Group

Fungi

Type description

Van Geel et al 2011: Conidia broad ellipsoidal, 42–71×21–25 μm, branched, composed of ca. 7 rows of cells.

Gelorini et al 2011: Conidia broadly ellipsoid, composed of ca. 7 rows of cells, pale yellow, 42–71×21–25 μm, smooth, slightly thick-walled, slightly constricted at the septa.

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.

Dictyosporium cf.heptasporum

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