The Echinoid Directory

Pseudovulechinus Szorenyi, 1955, p. 79

Diagnostic Features	Test small, ovate, well rounded anterior and posterior margin, highly inflated adapical surface, flattened adorally with rounded margins. Apical system tetrabasal. Petals poorly developed. Peristome subcentral. Periproct inframarginal, transverse.
Distribution	Upper Cretaceous (Senonian) of Hungary.
Name gender	masculine
Type	Pseudovulechinus rotunatus Szorenyi, 1955, p. 79 (?=Hungaresia hungarica Szorenyi, 1955); by original designation.
Species Included	Only the type species.
Classification and/or Status	Irregularia; Cassiduloida; Echinolampadidae ?Objective junior synonym of Hungaresia Szorenyi, 1955.
Remarks	Kier (1962) reports that the specimen of the type species he has studies is in all likelihood an immature specimen of Hungaresia hungarica Szorenyi, with a similarly inflated test, petal arrangement, inframarginal periproct, and single-pored phyllodes. This is supported by the fact that all specimens studied by Szorenyi are small and come from the same locality as H. hungarica. P. M. Kier. 1962. Revision of the cassiduloid echinoids. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 144 (3) 262 pp. E. Szorenyi. 1955. Echinides Cretaces de la Bakony. Geologica Hungarica., series Palaeontologica 26, 268 pp., 22 pls.