Melonites (echinoderm)
| Melonites Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
_(19830365283).jpg) | |
| Melonites multiporus fossil from St Louis, Missouri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | |
| Phylum: | |
| Class: | |
| Order: | Palaechinoidea |
| Family: | Palaechinidae |
| Genus: | Melonites Norwood & Owen, 1846 |
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". 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.