Aquillapollenites

Aquillapollenites is an extinct morphogenus of Late Cretaceous angiosperm pollen grain.

Aquillapollenites was a very large group containing something like 80 total species, but all of them were typified by their triprojectate structure: three processes extend from the equator of the pollen grain and one process extends upwards to each pole, giving Aquillapollenites the shape of a child's jack.

[1] Aquillapollenities was mostly extinct by the end of the Cretaceous, but a few species survive across the K-T boundary into the Eocene Epoch.

[2] North America's northern animal biome approximately correspond with the Aquillapollenites palynofloral province.

[3] It has been suggested that Aquillapollenites is a pollen type produced by an extinct member of the mistletoe family, but this remains uncertain.