Melonis Monfort 1808 (foram)

Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Nonionidae

Parent taxon: Pulleniinae according to J.-P. Margerel 2012

See also de Montfort 1808 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Chilostomellina

Subtaxa: Melonis barleeanum

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (6 collections), Panama (1)

• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Italy (1), North Atlantic (8), Panama (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Czechia (1), Ecuador (2), Italy (1), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (17), Slovakia (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of North Atlantic (1)

• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Colombia), Germany (2), New Zealand (4), North Atlantic (1)

• Eocene of Canada (2: British Columbia), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (2: Louisiana, Louisiana/Texas)

Total: 60 collections including 69 occurrences

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