Atsabites

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Atsabites
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Neoicocerataceae
Family: Atsabitidae
Genus: Atsabites

Atsabites is a genus of cephalopod belonging to the Atsabitidae family. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopi, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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