380 SYNOPSIS OF AMERICAN FOSSIL BRACHIOPODA. [bull. 87. 



Sphaerobolus spissus (Billings). Lower Ordovician. 



Liugulclla f spiss.i Billings, Canadian Nat. GeoL, n. ser., VI, 1872, p. 468, lig. 



5;— Pal. Fossils, II, 1874, p. 67, lig. 36. 

 Spliiorobolns spissus Matthew, Trans. Koyal Soc. Canada, 2(1 ser., I, 1896, p. 



263, pi. 1, fig. .5. 

 Loc. Bell Island, Nowlbuiidland. 



SPIRIFER Soweiby. Genotype Anomite.s striatus Martin. 



Sl»iril»n- Sowerby, Mineral Concliology, II, 1815, p. 41. — Billings, Canadian Nat. 

 Geol., I, 1856, p. 134. — Meek and Ilayden, Pal. Upper ]SIi88oiiri, Sraitlisonian 

 Cout. to Knowledge, XIV, 172, 1864, p. 17.— Hall and Clarke, I'al. New York, 

 VIII, Pt. II, 1893, pp. 1-40;— Thirteen th Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Geologist, 

 1895, p. 751. 



Spirifera Billings, Canadian Journal, VI, 1861, p. 253. — Hall, Twentieth Rep. N. 

 Y. State Cab. Nat. Hist., 1867, p. 251;— Pal. New York, IV, 1867, p. 186.— 

 White, AVheeler's Expl. and Survey west of the 100th Merid., 1875, p. 90.— 

 Herrick, Bull. Denison University, IV, 1888, p. 14. — Nettelroth, Kentucky 

 Fossil Shells, Mem. Kentucky Geol. Survey, 1889, p. 105.— Hall, Bull. Geol. 

 Soc. America, I, 1890, p. 567;— Ninth Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Geol., 1890, p. 9. 



Spirifer acanthopterus (Conrad). 1 Hamilton (Dev.). 



Dclthyris acauthoptera Conrad, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, VIII, 1842, 



p. 264. 

 Loc. Oneouta, Otsego County, New York. 



Spirifer acuminatus (Ooiirad). Corniferous and Hamilton (Dev.). 



DeltLyris acuminata Conrad, Third Ann. Rep. N. Y. Geol. Survey, 1839, p. 65. 



Delthyris prora Conrad, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, VIII, 1842, p. 263. 



Terebratula acuminatissima Castelnau, Essai Syst. Silurien I'Am^rique Septen- 

 trionale, 1843, p. 40, pi. 14, fig. 16. 



Spirifer cultrijugatus Yandell and Shumard (non Roenier, 1844), Cont. Geol. Ken- 

 tucky, 1847, p. 10. 



Spirifer acuminata Hall, Tenth Rep. N. Y. State Cab. Nat. Hist., 1857, p. 135. 



Spirifera acuminata Hall, Pal. New York, IV, 1867, pp. 198, 234, pi. 29, figs. 

 9-18; pi. 3.5, fig. 24. — Nettelroth, Kentucky Fossil Shells, Mem. Kentucky 

 Geol. Survey, 1889, p. 105, pi. 8, figs. 1-8. 



Spirifer acuminatus White, Second Rep. Indiana Bureau of Statistics and Geo!., 

 1880, p. .503, pi. 4, figs. 1-3;— Tenth Rep. State (Jeol. Indiana, 1881, p. 135, 

 pi. 4, figs. 1-3.— Hall and Clarke, Pal. New York, VIII, Pt. II, 1893, pp. 31, 39, 

 pi. 39, figs. 39-42. 



Loc. Schoharie, Williamsville, Clarence Hollow, Hamilton, Madison, etc.. New 

 York; Columbus and Sandusky, Ohio; Falls of Ohio. 



Spirifer acuticostatus dc Ivoninck. Upper Carboniferons. 



Spirifer acuticostatus de Kouinck, Auimaux Fos. Carb. Belgique, p. 265, pi. 17, 



fig. 6. 

 Spirifera acuticostata David.son, Quart, .four. Geol. Soc. London, XIX, 1863, p. 



171, 1)1. 9, figs. 7, 8.— Dawson, Acadian Geol., 3d ed., 1878, p. 292, fig. 91. 

 Loc. Europe; Brookfleld and Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. 



Spirifer agelaius Meek. Lower Carboniferous. 



Spirifer triradialis? Meek (non Phillips), Sixth Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Survey 



Terr., 1873, p. 470. 

 Spirifer agelaius Meek, Ibidem, 1873, p. 470, footnote. — White, Twelfth Ann. 



Rep. U. S. Geol. Survey Terr., 1883, p. 135, pi. 34, fig. 10. 

 Loc. Near Virginia City, Montana. 



Spirifer alatus Castelnau (non Sclilotbeinij= Spirifer aliformis. 



