Melonites (Echinoid)

Melonites; Temporal range: [1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Melonites multiporus fossil from St Louis, Missouri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Echinoidea
Order:	Palaechinoidea
Family:	Palaechinidae
Genus:	Melonites; Norwood & Owen, 1846

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.

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[GBIF-1] "Global Biodiversity Information Facility". Retrieved 15 October 2015.

[Nelomites-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.