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Melonites (echinoid)

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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

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  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.