Alanites

Alanites
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Genus: Alanites

Alanites is an extinct Triassic ammonoid cephalopod genus named by Shevyrev, 1968, found in association with Laboceras and Megaphyllites in Siberia and assigned to the ceratitid family Khvlaynitidae which is part of the Dinaritaceae. Its type is Alanites visendus .

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