The Echinoid Directory

Coptodiscus Cotteau & Gauthier, 1895, p. 76

Diagnostic Features	All five genital plates perforated by a gonopore. Aboral plating highly ornamented with sutural pits. Single primary interambulacral tubercle centrally placed on each aboral interambulacral plate; multiple tubercles on adoral plates. Ambulacra as in Coenholectypus. Periproct relatively small and opening midway between the peristome and posterior margin.
Distribution	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian, Maastrichtian); Spain and the Middle East
Name gender	masculine
Type	Coptodiscus nomiae Cotteau & Gauthier, 1895, p. 77, by monotypy.
Species Included	Coptodiscus nomiae Cotteau & Gauthier, 1895; Campanian-Maastrichtian, Iran, Arabian Peninsula C. mengaudi Lambert, 1919; Late Cenomanian, Santander, Spain
Classification and/or Status	Holectypoida, Holectypidae, Coenholectypinae Presumed monophyletic
Remarks	An easily recognisable genus on account of its highly distinctive ornamentation. Temnholectypus was suggested as a synonym, having pits scattered over its aboral surface according to Lambert & Thiery (1911, p. 280). However, this feature was not noted in the original description or figures given for the type species of Temnholectypus. Consequently Temnholectypus is here treated as a distinct genus. Cotteau, G. H. & Gauthier, V. 1895. Mission scientifique en Perse par J. de Morgan; études géologiques des échinides fossiles. Volume 3, 1-107. E. Leroux, Paris.