Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Marathonitidae
Parent taxon: Marathonitoidea according to Z. R. Zhou 2017
See also Bogoslovskaya 1990, Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Leonova 1989 and Leonova 2002
Sister taxon: Hyattoceratidae
Subtaxa: Almites Cardiella Kargalites Kargalitinae Marathonites Marathonitinae Promarathonites Pseudovidrioceras Suakites Subkargalites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (1: Nunavut collection), China (10), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Italy (2), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (14), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (5), Tajikistan (88), Ukraine (3), United States (40: New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (6), the Russian Federation (6), United States (24: Texas)
Total: 206 collections including 294 occurrences