The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, August 2011

Procollyropsis Beurlen, 1934, p. 129

Diagnostic Features Like Collyropsis but periproct still visible from above and posterior not so pointed.
Distribution Oxfordian, Europe
Type Dysaster platypygus Quenstedt, 1874, p. 565.
Species Included Only the type species.
Classification and/or Status Irregularia, stem group Atelostomata (disasteroid), Collyritidae

Monotypic
Remarks Established as a subgenus of Collyropsis.

Beurlen, K. 1934. Monographie der Echinoiden-Familie Collyritidae d'Orb. Palaeontographica 80A, 42-194.