The Echinoid Directory

Galerolampas Cotteau, 1889, p. 1

Diagnostic Features	Test of medium size, subovate, weakly inflated in profile. Apical system monobasal with four gonopores. Petals lanceolate, converging distally but not closed. Columns of pore pairs in each petal shown as equal in length. Periproct on vertical posterior face or slightly inframarginal. Peristome anterior, pentagonal, wider than high. Short transverse bourrelets weakly developed. Phyllodes developed, structure unknown. Narrow naked, pitted area interambulacrum 5 on oral surface.
Distribution	Middle Eocene of France.
Name gender	feminine
Type	Galerolampas sorigneti Cotteau, 1889, p. 3, by monotypy.
Species Included	G. sorigneti Cotteau, 1889; Middle Eocene, France.
Classification and/or Status	Irregularia; Cassiduloida; Cassidulidae. Subjective junior synonym of Rhyncholampas A. Agassiz, 1869.
Remarks	Kier (1962) states that Galerolampas differs from Rhyncholampas only by having a slightly inframarginal periproct, the periproct in Rhyncholampas being either marginal or slightly supramarginal. No material has been examined and much remains unknown about this taxon. G. Cotteau. 1889-1894. Paleontologie francaise. Terrain tertiaire. II. Echinides eocenes. Paris, G. Mason. 789 pp., pls 201-384. P. M. Kier. 1962. Revision of the cassiduloid echinoids. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 144 (3) 262 pp.