Syracosphaera pulchra Lohmann, 1902
The three-shielded placoliths [may be interpreted loxolith with distal, mid-wall and proximal flanges] with a wide central area with or without distal process.
Syracosphaera is three-shielded placoliths [may be interpreted as loxolith with distal, mid-wall and proximal flanges] with a wide central area with or without distal process. Coronosphaera Lohmann (1902) and Laminolithus Heimdal in Heimdal & Gaarder (1980) are loxoliths.
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