Melchiorites

Melchiorites is a desmoceratid ammonite genus included in the subfamily Puzosiinae. Member species are characterized by an essentially evolute shell in which the early whorls are smooth, with sinuous radial or oblique constrictions but in which later whorls have feeble intermediate ribs on the outer part of the sides and venter.

Melchiorites
Temporal range: Aptian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Order:
Ammonitida
Family:
Desmoceratidae
Genus:
Melchiorites

Spath, 1923
Species [2]
  • M. melchioris

Melchioites is known from Lower Cretaceous of Europe, north Africa, and California. The type species, Melchiorites melchioris is from the Upper Albian of France.

References
Notes
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. "Paleobiology Database - Melchiorites". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
Bibliography
  • W.J. Arkell, et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, L364, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America and Univ Kansas Press.
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