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''Alanites'' is a genus of extinct Triassic
ammonoid Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
cephalopods named by Shevyrev, 1968, found in association with '' Laboceras'' and '' Megaphyllites'' in Siberia and assigned to the
ceratitid Ceratitida is an order that contains almost all ammonoid cephalopod genera from the Triassic as well as ancestral forms from the Upper Permian, the exception being the phylloceratids which gave rise to the great diversity of post Triassic ammoni ...
family Khvlaynitidae which is part of the Dinaritaceae. Its type is ''Alanites visendus'' .


References


Paleobiology Database -Alanites
Dinaritoidea Ceratitida genera {{Ceratitida-stub