Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Marathonitidae
Alternative combination: Marathonites (Almites) pressulus
Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev. 1956. Nizhnepermskie ammonity yuzhnogo Urala II. Ammonity Artinskogo yarusa. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 60:1-271
Belongs to Almites according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Bogoslovskaya 1990 and Ruzhentsev 1956
Sister taxa: Almites dmitrievi, Almites electraensis, Almites gracilis, Almites hayasakai, Almites invariabilis, Almites leveni, Almites multisulcatus, Almites pavlovi, Almites reverendus, Almites sellardsi, Almites transitorius, Almites ventrosus
Type specimen: PIN 317/13779. Its type locality is Aktasty River, western limestone ridge, Baigendzhinian, Aktyubinsk Region, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in the Baigendzhin Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 36.0
Distribution: found only at Aktasty River, western limestone ridge, Baigendzhinian, Aktyubinsk Region
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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