MELICERITITES. 
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Diagnosis. 
Zoarium of thin, dichotomous branches, with blunt-pointed ends. 
Apertures in transverse or si)iral rows. The apertures arc 
crowded, large, and semicircular. They are larger than the 
small triangular front wall. 
Avicnlaria between twice and thnee the supeidicial length of the 
zooecia. Depression long, narrow, with expanded distal end. 
Distribution. 
Cenomauian : Le Mans ; Kank and Jine, in Korycaner Schichten. 
Affinities. 
This species was first figured by ^lichelin as Pastulopora gracilis^ 
Goldf. D’Orbigny recognized this identification as erroneous, and 
in 1850 renamed the species Ceriopora cenomana \ in 1853 he 
transferred it to Mdiceritites. 
This species differs from its two contemporaries, Jf. gracilis 
(Goldf.) and M. scmiclausa (Mich.), by its larger and more crowded 
apertures {vide p. 329). 
One of JS’ovak’s figures of his J/. docens (viz., oj). cit. pi. viii. 
fig. 1 8) is in the Ceid condition. 
The name Ifeliceritites coiomana, Orb., has been differently used 
by Pergens, who applied it to a species founded in 1851, and 
renamed M. vendinnensis in 1854.^ 
LIST OF SPECIMENS. 
B. 3697. Three fragments (in tube). Cenomanian. Le Mans. Tesson Coll. 
B. 3621. Two fragments (on slide). Cenomanian. ? Le Mans. Purchased 
1877. 
B, 2730. Three worn fragments (on slide) . Cenomanian. Le Mans. Vine Coll. 
5. Meliceritites roemeri (von' Hagenow), 1839. 
Synonymy. 
Ceriopora roemeri, von Hagenow, 1839. Mon. Piig. : H. Jahrh. 1839, 
p. 28o, pi. V. fig. 7. 
Meliceritites ,, Eomer, 1840. Verst, nordd. Kr. p. 18. 
,, ,, d’Orbigny, 1853. Bry. Cret. p. 618. 
1 Bry. Cret. p. 1106. 
