Alocolytoceras
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|authority = Hyatt, 1900{{cite web | title= Paleobiology Database - Alocolytoceras | year = | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14537| access-date = 2017-10-19 }}
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Alocolytoceras is a lytoceratid ammonite with whorls that pass during growth from round to oval, rounded-quadrate, or compressed; with about 19 deep constrictions per whorl, with as many as 21 sharp ribs in between. The shell is evolute. All whorls are visible from either side.
Alocolytoceras belongs to the lytoceratid subfamily Alocolytoceratinae, which also includes Pachylytoceras and Pleurolytoceras. It is known from the upper Lower Jurassic of Europe and the Himalaya.
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- {{cite book| first1=W.J. |last1=Arkell |first2=B. |last2=Kummel |first3=C.W. |last3=Wright |series=Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4| title=Mesozoic Ammonoidea | publisher=Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press |location=Lawrence, Kansas|year=1957}}
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Category:Early Jurassic ammonites of Europe
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