| 1861 Collosphaera spinosa - Haeckel p. 845 |
| 1862 Collosphaera spinosa - Haeckel p. 536; pl. 34, figs. 12-13 |
| 1887 Acrosphaera spinosa - Haeckel p. 100; not figured |
| 1967 Polysolenia spinosa - Nigrini pl. 1, fig. 1 |
| 1971 Acrosphaera spinosa - Strelkov and Reshetnjak pl. 5, figs. 33-38; pl. 6, figs. 39-41 |
| 1979 Acrosphaera spinosa spinosa - Bjørklund and Goll pl. 1, figs. 8-9 |
| 1979 Polysolenia spinosa - Nigrini and Moore pl. 2, fig. 5 |
| 1980 Acrosphaera spinosa - Boltovskoy and Riedel pl. 1, figs. 1-3 |
| 1985 Polysolenia spinosa - Lombari and Boden p. 34; not figured |
| 1995 Acrosphaera spinosa - Schröder-Ritzrau pl. 4, figs. 5-6 |
| 1995 Acrosphaera spinosa - van de Paverd pls. 5-7 |
| 1996 Acrosphaera spinosa - Welling pl. 1, figs. 2-3 |
| 1998 Acrosphaera spinosa - Boltovskoy fig. 15.18 |
