''Anatsabites'' is a
monospecific genus of
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 belonging to the
Paragastrioceratidae
Paragastrioceratidae is one of ten families of the Neoicoceratoidea superfamily. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloid
...
family
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. The only species is ''Anatsabites multiliratus'' (Plummer & Scott, 1937), formerly placed into genus ''
Paraceltites
''Paraceltites'' is a genus of ammonoid cephalopods in the ceratitid family Paraceltitidae
Paraceltitidae is a family of Middle and Upper Permian cephalopods, that comprise the earliest of the Ceratitida. Paraceltitidids have variably ribbed ...
''. Its fossils were found in
Wordian (
Permian
The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleoz ...
) of Texas.
[T. B. Leonova. 2011. Permian Ammonoids: Biostratigraphic, Biogeographical, and Ecological Analysis. Paleontological Journal. doi:10.1134/S0031030111100029]
References
Atsabitidae
Goniatitida genera
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