Back
Spiniferites corniger
Spiniferites? cornigerus (Wetzel, 1933b, p.39, pl.5, fig.6 ex Deflandre, 1937b, p.66) Sarjeant, 1970, p.76.
Originally Hystrichosphaera, subsequently Spiniferites, thirdly (and now) Spiniferites?. Questionable assignment: Stover and Evitt (1978, p.191). This epithet, meaning horn-bearing, is correctly rendered as "corniger" when masculine.
Holotype: O. Wetzel, 1933, pl.5, fig.6
Age: Late Cretaceous
Originally Hystrichosphaera, subsequently Spiniferites, thirdly (and now) Spiniferites?. Questionable assignment: Stover and Evitt (1978, p.191). This epithet, meaning horn-bearing, is correctly rendered as "corniger" when masculine.
Holotype: O. Wetzel, 1933, pl.5, fig.6
Age: Late Cretaceous