Melonites (echinoid)

Melonites
Temporal range:
Melonites multiporus fossil from St Louis, Missouri
Scientific classification
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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.