†superfamily Marathonitoidea Ruzhencev 1938 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida

Alternative spelling: Marathonitaceae

Parent taxon: Goniatitina according to Z. R. Zhou 2017

See also Bogoslovskaya 1990, Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Leonova 1989 and Leonova 2002

Sister taxa: Adrianitoidea, Agathiceratoidea, Cycloloboidea, Dimorphoceratoidea, Gastrioceratoidea, Girtyocerataceae, Goniatitidae, Goniatitoidea, Gonioloboceratoidea, Neodimorphoceratoidea, Neoglyphioceratoidea, Neoicoceratoidea, Nomismoceratoidea, Pericycloidea, Popanoceratoidea, Schistoceratoidea, Shumarditoidea, Somoholitoidea, Thalassoceratoidea

Subtaxa: Hyattoceratidae Marathonitidae

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Wolfcamp of United States (1: Texas collection)

• Permian of Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (14), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), Italy (5), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (14), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (5), Tajikistan (88), Ukraine (3), United States (40: Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming)

• Virgilian of United States (7: Texas)

• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (6), the Russian Federation (6), United States (17: Texas)

Total: 217 collections including 311 occurrences

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