Alloclionites

Systematic Paleontology

Order: Ceratitida

Superfamily: Clydonitaceae

Family: Clionitidae Genus: Alloclinites

Alloclinites is a ceratitid ammonite genus from the upper Triassic included in the Clionitidae. Its shell is evolute, discoidal, with a ventral groove and whorl section higher than wide. Sides ribbed with many tubercles which tend to diminish on the body chamber.

Alloclinites has been reassigned to the Steinmannitidae in some classifications, although it has the basic characters of the Clionitidae. Its type is Alloclionites ares which equals Clionites (Arpadites) ares, known (only?) from the Triassic of Tajikistan.