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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4623829	https://www.gbif.org/species/4623829
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	93124	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=93124

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Marathonitidae : Kargalites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Goniatitida : Marathonitidae : Kargalites

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea
order	Goniatitida	Hyatt 1884
suborder	Goniatitina	Hyatt 1884
superfamily	Marathonitoidea
family	Marathonitidae	Ruzhencev 1938
genus	Kargalites	Ruzhencev 1938

Scientific Name

Kargalites Ruzhencev, 1938

Name Published In

Probl. Paleont., Moscow, 4

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Kargalites	genus	belongs to Kargalitinae	stated with evidence	Leonova, 1989
Kargalites	genus	belongs to Marathonitidae	stated with evidence	Furnish et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

304 - 299 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Goniatitida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. Korn. 2006. Paleozoic ammonoid classification.

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Kargalites (Subkargalites) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Kargalites basarensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	290 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Kargalites latus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Kargalites liuzhaiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kargalites mullerriedi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Kargalites nandanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	299 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous
Kargalites simplex ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Kargalites subquadratus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Kargalites timorensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kargalites typicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Kargalites wanneri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1938	Kargalites Ruzhencev
1989	Kargalites Leonova p. 141
1990	Kargalites Bogoslovskaya p. 71
2006	Kargalites Korn
2009	Kargalites Furnish et al. p. 160
2017	Kargalites Zhou p. 68

References

Korn D. (2006) Paleozoic ammonoid classification

Leonova T. B. (1989) Systematic paleontology, in Rannepermskie ammonoidei Yugo-Vostochnogo Pamira, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 235, 1-198

Bogoslovskaya M. F. (1990) Osnovnye puti razvitiya i klassifikatsiya pozdnepaleozoyskikh ammonoidei Marathonitaceae i Cyclolobaceae, Iskopaemye Tsefalopodi: Puti Evolyutsii i Sisematikya Otdelnykh Grupp. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 243, 70-86

Furnish W. M., Glenister B. F., et al (2009) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised: Mollusca 4, Volume 2: Carboniferous and Permian Ammonoidea (Goniatitida and Prolecanitida), 1-258

Zhou Z. R. (2017) Permian basinal ammonoid sequence in Nanpanjiang area of South China - possible overlap between basinal Guadalupian and platform-based Lopingian, Journal of Paleontology 91 Memoir 74, 1-95

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Probl. Paleont., Moscow, 4 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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