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Ovulechinus Lambert 1920, p. 148

Diagnostic Features	Small subglobular test Apical disc plating unknown; no gonopores open in either specimen Aboral ambulacra subpetaloid, with slightly enlarged pore-pairs No phyllodes adorally Peristome small, rounded Periproct small, inframarginal and transverse
Distribution	Upper Cretaceous (Santonian), France
Name gender	masculine
Type	Ovulechinus pilula Lambert, 1920, p. 148, by original designation
Species Included	Only the type species (two poorly preserved individuals)
Classification and/or Status	Irregularia; Cassiduloida; Pygaulidae Probably a junior subjective synonym of Echinogalerus
Remarks	Very close to Echinogalerus in appearance.  A rounded peristome is also present in E. rostratus Refigured by Kier (1962) who treated it as a cassiudloid incertae sedis. Lambert 1920. Sur quelques genres nouveaux d\'echinides. Memoires de la Societe academique de l'Aube 84, 145-174. Kier, P. M. 1962. Revision of the cassiduloid echinoids. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 144 (3), 262 pp., 44 pls.