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]
| Reduviasporonites | |
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Trace fossil classification 
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| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| (unranked): | Charophyta |
| Class: | Zygnematophyceae |
| Order: | Zygnematales |
| Ichnogenus: | †Reduviasporonites L.R.Wilson, 1962 |
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It is of interest as possible evidence for a spike in fungal abundance associated with the Permian–Triassic extinction event.[1]
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