433 Systematic Paleontology 



of fossilized fragments of different conifers with a similar vegeta- 

 tive habit is almost nnsurmountable and very similar twigs are often 

 referred to Sequoia. 



Sphenolepis Kukeiana (Dnnker) Schenk ^ 

 Plate LXXIV, Figs. 2, 3 



Thuites (Cupressites ?) Kurrianus Dunker, 1846, Mon. Norddeutsch. Weald.- 



bild., p. 20, pi. vii, fig. 8. 

 Widdringtonites Kurrianus Bndliclier, 1847, Synopsis, p. 272. 

 Br achy phy Hum Kurrianum Brongniart, 1849, Tableau, p. 107. 

 Brachyphyllum Germari Brongniart, 1849, Tableau, p. 107. 

 Widdringtonites Kurrianus Goppert, 1850, Foss. Conif., p. 176. 

 Thuites Germari linger, 1850, Gen. et Sp., p. 348.^ 

 Widdringtonites Kurrianus Unger, 1850, Ibid., p. 342. 

 Widdringtonites Kurrianus Ettings., 1851, Abh. k, k. geol, Reichs., Band i, 



Abth. iii, p. 25. 

 Widdringtonites Haidingeri Ettingshausen, 1851, IMd., p. 26, pi. ii, fig. 1. 

 Araucarites Dunkeri Ettingsbausen, 1851, IMd. (pars), p. 27, pi. ii, figs. 



2-10. 

 Widdringtonites Kurrianus Hildebrand, 1861, Verbreit. Conif., 1861, p. 296. 

 Widdringtonites Haidingeri Hildebrand, 1861, IMd., p. 296. 

 Widdringtonites Kurrianus Schimp., 1870, Pal. Veget., tome ii, p. 329. 

 Sphenolepis Kurriana Schenk, 1871, Palseont., Band xix, p. 243, pi. xxxvii, 



figs. 5-8;' pi. xxxviii, fig. 1 (non fig. 2 which is an Onychiopsis) . 

 Sphenolepis Kurriana Schimper, Pal. Veget., Atlas, 1874, pi. ex, fig. 26. 

 Sphenolepidium Kurrianum Heer, 1881, Contrib. Fl. Foss. Port., p. 19, pi. 



xii, fig. lb; pi. xiii, figs, lb, 8b; pi. xviii, figs. 1-8. 

 Sphenolepidium Kurrianum, Schenk, 1884, in Zittel, Handbuch, p. 304, fig. 



210. 

 Sphenolepis Kurriana Hosius and v. d. Marck, 1885, Palseont., Band xxvi, 



p. 216, pi. xliv, fig. 209. 

 Sphenolepidium Kurrianum Fontaine, 1890, Mon. U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. xv, 



1889, p. 260, pi. cxxvi, figs. 1, 5, 6; pi. cxxviii, figs. 1, 7; pi. cxxix, figs. 



1, 4, 6, 8; pi. cxxx, fig. 11; pi. cxxxi, fig. 4; pi. clxvii, fig. 2. 



^ The follov/ing are included in the synonymy of this species by Seward 

 (loc. cit.J : Muscites imbricatus Koember, Verstein., 1839, p. 9, pi. xvii, fig. 

 Ic (this is doubtful and would change the specific name if recognized) ; 

 Araucarites hamatus Trautschold, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscou, tome xiii, 

 1870, p. 225, pi. xxi, fig. 3; and Thuites Choffati Heer, loc. cit., 1881, p. 11, pi. 

 X, fig. 8. 



^ Since it would involve a change in the specific name of this well-known 

 species, Thuites Germari Dunker, Mon. Norddeutsch. Weald.-Bild., p. 19, 1846, 

 is omitted from the synonymy as being of uncertain value. 



