Clionites

Clionites Temporal range: Upper Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Order:	Ceratitida
Superfamily:	Clydonitaceae
Family:	Clionitidae
Genus:	Clionites Mojsisovics, 1893

Clionites is a genus of the clydonitacean family Clionitidae, and its type. The shell is evolute so as to expose all whorls which are covered with generally bifurcating signmoidal ribs. The suture is ceratitid with two lateral lobes. .

Clionites differs from Alloclionites in having sparcer tubercles, finner ribbing, and not as high a whorl section. It has been found in Nevada, Southern Europe, and Asia.

References

• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. R. C. Moore (ed). Geological Society of America and Univ of Kansas press, 1957