Biology:Melonites (echinoid)
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Short description: Extinct genus of sea urchins
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| Melonites multiporus fossil from St Louis, Missouri | |
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| Class: | Echinoidea
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| Order: | Palaechinoidea
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| Family: | Palaechinidae
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| Genus: | Melonites Norwood & Owen, 1846
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Melonites is an extinct genus of sea urchin from the family Palaechinidae. Species belonging to this genus lived during the late Mississippian (Meramecian).
The same generic name was used for a genus of goniatite, which was later renamed Nelomites.[2]
References
- ↑ "Global Biodiversity Information Facility". https://www.gbif.org/species/3249593. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ 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.
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