Geodia tripunctata Appendix A

"?tripunctata" Merrill, 1895, p.16; text-fig.15.  Holotype: Merrill, 1895, text-fig.15.  Questionable assignment: Merrill (1895, p.16).  Taxonomic senior synonym: Xanthidium (now Spiniferites) ramosum, by implication in Sarjeant (1964a, p.175), who considered Geodia? tripunctata to be a taxonomic junior synonym of Xanthidium (as Hystrichosphaera) furcatum, which is now a taxonomic junior synonym of Spiniferites ramosus.  Age: Early Cretaceous.

Parent: Geodia_Appendix A