The Echinoid Directory
Contributed by Andrew Smith, August 2011
Proisaster Aziz & Badve, 2001, p. 57
| Diagnostic Features | Similar to Isaster in having cordately elongated shape and centrally placed apical system without any fasciole but differs as latter has a transversely elongated periproct (from Aziz & Badve 2001) |
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| Distribution | Campanian, Upper Cretaceous, India |
| Name gender | masculine |
| Type | Proisaster coramandeli Aziz & Badve, 2001, p. 57 |
| Species Included | Only the type species (based on single specimen) |
| Classification and/or Status | Spatangoida indet. |
| Remarks | Completely indeterminate from the figure and description. Aziz, A. S. & Badve, R. M. 2001. New echinoid fauna from the South India Cretaceous deposits. Gondwana Geological Magazine 16(2), 43-59. |