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Melonites
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Melonites multiporus fossil from St Louis, Missouri
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Melonites

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

  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.