Alloclionites

Alloclionites
Temporal range: Triassic
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Superfamily: Clydonitaceae
Family: Clionitidae
Genus: Alloclionites
Spath, 1951

Alloclionites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus within the family Clionitidae which is part of the ceratitid superfamily Clydonitaceae. Alloclionites comes from the Upper Triassic of the Alps, Balkans, Himalayas, Timor, and British Columbia and is recognized by its many tubercles which tend to diminish on the body chamber.

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