The Echinoid Directory

Brochopleurus Fourtau, 1920, p. 25

Diagnostic Features	Test small, subcircular, upper face weakly domed; slightly sunken towards peristome on lower surface. Apical disc small, plating lost. Ambulacra trigeminate; pore-pairs uniserial above, in weak arcs at the ambitus; pore zone a little sunken. Primary tuberles imperforate and non-crenulate; with radial ornament leasding to surrounding granules. Interambulacral plates with central primary tubercle, also with radial ornament. Peristome moderate, with shallow buccal notches.
Distribution	Miocene, Pakistan, ?Egypt; Upper Eocene, USA
Name gender	masculine
Type	Temnechinus stellatus Duncan & Sladen, 1886, p. 304, by original designation
Species Included	B. stellatus (Duncan & Sladen, 1886); Miocene, Pakistan. B. gajensis (Duncan & Sladen, 1886); Miocene, Pakistan. ?B. fallax Lambert, in Lambert & Thiery, 1921; Miocene, Egypt. B. prestiosus (Clark, 1915); Upper Eocene, Alabama, USA
Classification and/or Status	Euechinoidea; Camarodonta; Temnopleuroida; Trigonocidaridae Subjective junior synonym of Ortholophus Duncan, 1887.
Remarks	Duncan, P. M. & Sladen, W. P. 1885. The fossil Echinoidea from the Gaj or Miocene Series. Palaeontologia India series14. 1(3). 273-367, pls 44-55. Fourtau, R. 1920. Catalogue des Invertebres fossiles de l'Egypte. Terrains Tertiaires, 2 Partie: Echinodermes Neogenes. Geological Survey of Egypt, Palaeontology Series 4. Cairo, Government Press. Mortensen, T. (1943) A monograph of the Echinoidea Part III.2, Camarodonta 1. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen