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Classification of maceral groups and macerals with their characteristic features (modified
after Teichmuller, 1989)

Maceral Macerals Morphology Characteristics

Groups

Primary

Telinite Cell structures visible Cell walls

Telo- Cell structures faintly visible Tissue
Collinite Eu- Amorphous appearance Amorphous (gel or gelified)
Detro- Fine-grained matrix Detritus
Vitrinite
Corpocollinite Rounded or oval amorphous bodies Cell fillings
Vitrodetrinite Fine to small angular grain Detritus

Sporinite Well-preserved structures Spores, pollen

Cutinite Well-preserved structures Cuticles
Suberinite Well-preserved cell structures Suberinized cork cell walls
Fluorinite Oval or rounded oily substance
Resinite Rounded or oval bodies within
or without cell structures
Liptinite
Tel- Large colonial or unicellular algae Algae
Alginite
Lam- Lamellar algal bodies Algae
Chlorophyllinite Oval or rounded bodies within cells Chlorophyll
Bituminite Amorphous lenses, streaks or bands Amorphous (bacterial, algal,
or faunal)
Liptodetrinite Fine-grained matrix Detritus

Fusinite Well-preserved or broken cells Cell walls (charred, oxydized)

Semifusinite Incipient cell structures Cell walls (partially charred,
oxydized)
Sclerotinite (funginite) Well-preserved structures Fungal cell walls
Inertinite Macrinite Amorphous appearance Amorphous gel (oxydized,
metabolic)
Micrinite Amorphous grainy Oxydized amorphous gel
Faunal Relics Shreds of faunal fragments Fish or other animal fragments

Secondary

Liptinite Exsudatinite Amorphous maceral within fractures Exsudates

Inertinite Micrinite Amorphous and grainy Relics of oil generation

Inertinite Rank-inertinite Inertinized spore, cuticle, etc. High rank liptinites