Protobactrites is characterized by a long slender
orthoconic or faintly curved longiconic shell with a circular or subcircular cross section, transverse sutures, long body chamber and oblique aperture. The siphuncle is eccentric; exact structure unknown. The surface has transverse and in some species longitudinal striae. Adult shells may be naturally truncated. Nothing is known of the living animal which may have had eight or ten arms, and tentacles, like modern
coleoids such as modern
squid and
octopus. ==Fossil distribution==