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Melonites

Melonites
Temporal range: Famennian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Tornoceratina
Superfamily: Dimeroceratoidea
Family: Cheiloceratidae
Subfamily: Raymondiceratinae
Genus: Melonites
Bogoslovskii, 1971

Melonites is genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the Cheiloceratidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Devonian (Famennian). Same generic name has also been used for genus of echinoid named Melonites Norwood & Owen, 1846.

Sometimes, more species were added into this genus:


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