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



Sphaerobolus spissus (Billings). Lower Ordovician. 



Liugulella f spissii Billings, Canadian Nat. Geo!., u. ser., VI, 1872, p. 468, fig. 



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

 SpbaTobolus spisHus Matthew, Traus. Koyal Soc. Canada, 2(1 ser., I, 189G, p. 



263, pi. 1, fig. 5. 

 Loc. Bell Island, Newfoundland. 



SPIR^t'ER Sowerby. Genotype Anomites striatus Martin. 



Spirifer Sowerby, Mineral Concbology, II, 1815, p. 41. — Billings, Canadian Nat. 

 Geol., I, 1856, p. 134. — Meek and Ilaydeu, Pal. Upper Missouri, Smithsonian 

 Cent, to Knowledge, XIV, 172, 1864, p. 17.— Hall and Clarke, Pal. New York, 

 VIII, Pt. II, 1893, pp. 1-40;— Thirteenth 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, Wheeler's Expl. and Survey west of the 100th Merid., 1875. p. 90.— 

 Herrick, Bull. Denisou 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). "l Hamilton (Dev.). 



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



p. 264. 

 Loc. Oneouta, Otsego County, New York. 



Spirifer acuminatus (Conrad). Coriiiferous and Hamilton (Dev.). 



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



Delthyris prora Conrad, .Tour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, A^III, 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 Roemer, 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. 35, fig. 24. — Nettelroth, Kentucky Fossil Shells, Mem. Kentucky 

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



Spirifer acuminatus AVhite, Second Rep. Indiana Bureau of Statistics and Geol,, 

 1880, p. .503, pi. 4, figs. 1-3;— Tenth Rep. State Geol, 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; F'alls of Ohio. 



Spirifer acnticostatus de Koninck, Upper Carboniferous. 



Spirifer acuticostatus de Koninck, Animaux Fos. Carb, Belgique, p, 265, pi. 17, 



fig. 6, 

 Spirifera acuticostata Davidson, Quart, Jour. Geol. Soc, London, XIX, 1863, p, 



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

 Loc. Europe; Brookfield 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 Sclilotbeimj= Spirifer aliformis. 



