Coronifera striolata subsp. minor

?subsp. minor Wetzel, 1933b. p.45–46. pl.4, fig.26 ex Sarjeant, 1984c, p.132.  Holotype: Wetzel, 1933b, pl.4, fig.26.  Originally Hystrichosphaera hirsuta forma minor (name not validly published), subsequently Baltisphaeridium hirsutum forma minus (combination not validly published; Appendix A), thirdly Operculodinium hirsutum subsp. minus (combination not validly published), fourthly (and now) Coronifera striolata subsp. minor?.  Questionable assignment: Sarjeant (1984c, p.132).  This taxon was first described and illustrated in Wetzel (1932, caption to pl.3, fig.13 — p.144; pl.3, fig.13) but the name was not validly published since the species name Xanthidium hirsutum Ehrenberg, 1837b was not validly published and additionally since the generic name Hystrichosphaera Wetzel, 1933b was not validly published at that time.  Sarjeant (1984c, p.132) validly published this name, as Coronifera striolata subsp. minor and noted that the attribution was "emphatically provisional".  This is possibly a taxonomic synonym of Hystrichosphaera hirsuta forma minor (name not validly published), which has a different holotype.  Age: Late Cretaceous.

Parent: Coronifera striolata