Cryptospore

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.

Synonyms

sporomorph statospore protospore archeospore blastospore archespore mesospore arthrospore auxospore palynomorph sporangiospore spore

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