Reduviasporonites

Reduviasporonites
Trace fossil classification
Clade:	Viridiplantae
(unranked):	Charophyta
Class:	Zygnematophyceae
Order:	Zygnematales
Ichnogenus:	†Reduviasporonites; L.R.Wilson, 1962
Synonyms
	Chordecystia C.B.Foster, 1979 ; Tympanicysta B.E.Balme, 1980 ;

Reduviasporonites is an ichnogenus of palynomorphs. It was first described from specimens found in the Flowerpot Formation by L. R. Wilson in 1962. That first paper conjectured that they were a type of Penicillium fungus. Another analysis suggested that it might have been algal. It has been classified as phragmospores, having cell walls in a ladder-like formation.^[1]

It is of interest as possible evidence for a spike in fungal abundance associated with the Permian–Triassic extinction event.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Thomas N Taylor, Michael Krings, Edith L. Taylor (2014), "Fungal spores", Fossil Fungi, Academic Press, p. 229, ISBN 9780123877543{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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[FF-1] Thomas N Taylor, Michael Krings, Edith L. Taylor (2014), "Fungal spores", Fossil Fungi, Academic Press, p. 229, ISBN 9780123877543{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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