Atsabites

Atsabites
Temporal range: Middle Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Neoicocerataceae
Family: Atsabitidae
Genus: Atsabites
Haniel, 1915

Atsabites is an ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the ceratitid family Atsabitidae that lived during the Middle Permian between about 294 and 284 million years ago.

The shell of Atsabites is evolute, discoidal; whorls slightly impressed dorsally, with numerous prominent lateral ribs and fine longitudinal lirae.

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