Alsatites

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Hettangian|ref={{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry) | journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 |pages=1–560 | year=2002 | url=http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class |accessdate=2017-10-18 |url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225225905/http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class | archive-date=2016-02-25 }}}}

| image = Alsatites proaries, Slg Reiter.JPG

| image_caption= Alsatites proaries

| taxon = Alsatites

| authority = Haug 1894

}}

Alsatites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. They lived during the Hettangian and are generally extremely evolute, many whorled. Keel broad and blunt organisms, they also exhibit a primary ribbing which is close and persistent.{{cite web | title= Paleobiology Database - Alsatites |author-link =| year = | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14538| access-date = 2017-10-19 }}

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:* Arkell, et al.,1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Ammonoidea). Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press, Revised 2013, Part L, Michale K. Howarth

:*{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Raymond C|title=Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology|year=1957|publisher=The Geological Society of America, University of Kansas|location=Boulder, Colorado|isbn=0-8137-3112-7|page=L235}}