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Article: Fungal spores of the genus Ctenosporites from the early Tertiary of southern England

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 21
Part: 3
Publication Date: July 1978
Page(s): 717 722
Author(s): P. H. Smith
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SMITH, P. H. 1978. Fungal spores of the genus Ctenosporites from the early Tertiary of southern England. Palaeontology21, 3, 717–722.

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Abstract

Dispersed fungal spores from Late Eocene deposits from the Hampshire Basin are placed in the genus Ctenosporites Elsik and Jansonius. The population studied shows continuous morphological variation between individuals conforming with C. eskerensis Elsik and Jansonius and with C. wolfei Elsik and Jansonius. C. wolfei is therefore placed in synonymy with C. eskerensis. Although previously described from Canadian and South Australian Tertiary assemblages, this is the first European Tertiary record of this highly distinctive genus.
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