Melonites (Echinoid)
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| Melonites multiporus fossil from St Louis, Missouri | |
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| Genus: | Melonites Norwood & Owen, 1846
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Melonites is genus of echinoid from Palaechinidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Mississippian (Meramecian). Same generic name was used for genus of a goniatite, which has been later renamed as Nelomites.[2]
References
- ^ "Global Biodiversity Information Facility". 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. S2CID 134266456.
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