Deflandrea minor Cookson and Eisenack 1960a

"minor" Cookson and Eisenack, 1960a, p.2, pl.1, figs.1-4.  Emendation: Morgan, 1977, p.130, as Alterbia minor.  Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1960a, pl.1, fig.1; Morgan, 1977, text-fig.2.  Name illegitimate - senior homonym: Deflandrea minor Alberti, 1959b.  Substitute name: Deflandrea balmei.  NOW Spinidinium balmei.  Originally Deflandrea minor (name illegitimate), subsequently Deflandrea balmei, thirdly Alterbia balmei (combination illegitimate), fourthly Isabelidinium balmei, fifthly (and now) Spinidinium balmei, sixthly Magallanesium balmei.  Taxonomic senior synonym: Palaeohystrichophora (as Diconodinium) minuta, according to Morgan (1977, p.130) - however, Lentin and Williams (1981, p.156) retained Deflandrea minor (as Isabelidinium balmei).  Age: Late Cretaceous.

Parent: Deflandrea