Coronifera striolata ssp.? minor O. Wetzel, 1933 ex Sarjeant, 1984

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 O. Wetzel, 1932 (caption to pl.3, fig.13 and pl.3, fig.13), but the name was not validly published since the species name Xanthidium hirsutum Ehrenberg, 1838 was not validly published and additionally since the generic name Hystrichosphaera 0. Wetzel, 1933, was not validly published at that time.
Since Sarjeant, 1984, validly published this name, his citation Coronifera striolata ssp. minor (O. Wetzel, 1933) Sarjeant, 1984, must be taken as correct.
At the time of the validation, Sarjeant, 1984, stated that this generic reattribution was emphatically provisional.
Holotype: O. Wetzel, 1933, pl.4, fig.26
Age: Late Cretaceous