Melchiorites

rWotD Episode 3283: Melchiorites Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Thursday, 30 April 2026, is 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.Melchioites is known from Lower Cretaceous of Europe, north Africa, and California. The type species, Melchiorites melchioris is from the Upper Albian of France.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:13 UTC on Thursday, 30 April 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Melchiorites on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @[email protected] check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Gregory.