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Almites

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Marathonitidae

Taxonomy
Almites was named by Toumansky (1941) [Sepkoski's age data: C Step-u P Sakm-u]. It is not extant. Its type is Marathonites sellardsi.

It was reranked as Marathonites (Almites) by Ruzhentsev (1956).

It was assigned to Marathonites by Ruzhentsev (1956); to Goniatitida by Sepkoski (2002); to Marathonitinae by Leonova (1989), Bogoslovskaya (1990), Leonova (2002), Korn (2006); and to Marathonitidae by Furnish et al. (2009), Zhou (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1941Almites Toumansky
1956Marathonites (Almites) Ruzhentsev p. 244
1989Almites Leonova p. 143
1990Almites Bogoslovskaya p. 71
2002Almites Leonova
2002Almites Sepkoski
2006Almites Korn
2009Almites Furnish et al. p. 160
2017Almites Zhou p. 65

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyMarathonitoidea(Ruzhencev 1938)
familyMarathonitidaeRuzhencev 1938
genusAlmitesToumansky 1941

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Almites Toumansky 1941
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†Almites dmitrievi Leonova 1992
†Almites electraensis Plummer and Scott 1937
†Almites gracilis Smith 1927
†Almites hayasakai Ehiro and Ozawa 2020
†Almites invariabilis Ruzhentsev 1933
†Almites leveni Leonova 1992
†Almites multisulcatus Bogoslovskaya 1978
†Almites pavlovi Leonova 1982
†Almites pressulus Ruzhentsev 1956
†Almites reverendus Bogoslovskaya and Popov 1986
†Almites sellardsi Plummer and Scott 1937
†Almites transitorius Leonova 1992
†Almites ventrosus Leonova 1982
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height4010.75.7020.69.904.40
shell diameter4019.38.2938.918.68.13
shell inflation401.010.0015.702.251.41

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:36:55
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:36:08
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Gzhelian to the top of the Kungurian or 303.70000 to 274.40000 Ma

Collections (77 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Kazakhstan A. reverendus (81354 81355 81356 81357 81358)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9USA (Texas) A. sellardsi (105578)
Asselian298.9 - 293.52China (Guangxi) A. multisulcatus (185583 185585) Marathonites sp. (95829)
Asselian298.9 - 293.52Kazakhstan A. reverendus (81360)
Asselian298.9 - 293.52USA (Texas) A. sellardsi (43468 43474 43481 43556 105577 105579) A. sp. (43509)
Asselian298.9 - 293.52Tajikistan A. multisulcatus (102491 102492 102494 102495 102496)
Asselian298.9 - 293.52Japan A. hayasakai (214599) Marathonites jpsmithi (116014)
Wolfcampian298.9 - 286.0USA (Texas) Peritrochia sellardsi (211422)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1Tajikistan A. dmitrievi (130221 130243) A. leveni (130234)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1USA (Texas) A. sellardsi (43573 102612 106156) Peritrochia sellardsi (95809 113186)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3USA (Texas) A. sellardsi (105680 105720) A. sp. (43559) Marathonites sellardsi (101769) Peritrochia sellardsi (90007 97276) Stacheoceras n. sp. (131221)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3Kazakhstan Marathonites invariabilis (116788 125111 125112 125115 125116 125117) Marathonites pressulus (116792)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3Kazakhstan (Aqtobe) Marathonites invariabilis (125131)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3China (Guizhou) A. sp. (185542 185543)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3Tajikistan A. transitorius (130222)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3China (Guangxi) A. sp. (185586)
Artinskian - Kungurian290.1 - 274.4Indonesia A. gracilis (39614)
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4USA (Texas) A. sellardsi (43586) A. sp. (105815 106029)
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4Tajikistan A. pavlovi (111247 111252 111257 111259 111265 111270 111283 111291 111377 111378 111382 177979 177982 178026) A. pavlovi, A. ventrosus (111267) A. ventrosus (111276 111278 111286 111289 178037 178139)