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Melonites (Echinoid)

Melonites
Temporal range:
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (1895) (19830365283).jpg
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 is used for genus of an goniatite - Melonites.



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