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Areoligera incerta
Areoligera incerta, Klumpp, 1953
Now Spiniferites. Originally Areoligera, subsequently Hystrichosphaera, thirdly (and now) Spiniferites.
Tax. jr. synonym of Hystrichosphaera (now Spiniferites) pseudofurcatus Klumpp, 1953, according to Gocht, 1969. Sarjeant (1981, retained Areoligera incerta (as Spiniferites incertus) as a separate species.
Holotype: Klumpp, 1953, pl.17, figs.1-2
Age: Late Eocene
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Original description: [Klumpp, 1953]:
Description:
A species of the genus Areoligera with the following distinguishing characteristics: all plates irregularly quadrate without a distinct zone with elongate plates. The edge of the flat to concave fields is set with perpendicular spines, not with a velum.
Now Spiniferites. Originally Areoligera, subsequently Hystrichosphaera, thirdly (and now) Spiniferites.
Tax. jr. synonym of Hystrichosphaera (now Spiniferites) pseudofurcatus Klumpp, 1953, according to Gocht, 1969. Sarjeant (1981, retained Areoligera incerta (as Spiniferites incertus) as a separate species.
Holotype: Klumpp, 1953, pl.17, figs.1-2
Age: Late Eocene
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Original description: [Klumpp, 1953]:
Description:
A species of the genus Areoligera with the following distinguishing characteristics: all plates irregularly quadrate without a distinct zone with elongate plates. The edge of the flat to concave fields is set with perpendicular spines, not with a velum.