Melonites (echinoid)

Melonites is an extinct genus of sea urchin from the family Palaechinidae. Species belonging to this genus lived during the late Mississippian (Meramecian).

Melonites
Temporal range:
Melonites multiporus fossil from St Louis, Missouri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Palaechinoidea
Family:
Palaechinidae
Genus:
Melonites

Norwood & Owen, 1846

The same generic name was used for a genus of goniatite, which was later renamed Nelomites.[2]

References

  1. "Global Biodiversity Information Facility". Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  2. Jürgen Bockwinkel; Dieter Korn; Karl Josef Herd (2019). "An assemblage of pyritized middle Famennian ammonoids from the Velbert Anticline (Rhenish Mountains)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 291 (1): 41–59. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2019/0788. S2CID 134266456.


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