1941  Almites Tumanskaia: 259, 261.
     1950  Marathonites (Neomarathonites) Ruzhentsev: 190.
     1957  Peritrochia.- Treatise: L53.
     1960  Marathonites (Almites).- Ruzhentsev: 226.
     1962  Marathonites (Almites).- Osnovy: 391.
     1978  Almites.- Bogoslovskaia: 56.
     1989  Almites.- Leonova: 143.
     2002  Almites.-Leonova: S78.

Type species: Marathonites sellardsi Plummer & Scott, 1937, p.138 [OD].

[Bogoslovskaia, 1978, p. 56]: Shell small, pachyconic, involute. Ornament consisting of narrow lamellae forming a small
ventral sinus.Along the umbilical border there is a slight thickening of the shell layer taking the form of a ridge. Ventral
lobe subdivided by a high median saddle into two bicuspid branches. Dorsal lobe narrow and trifid. Four to five inner
lobes, of which the first three are deeper, bicuspid or simple, the fourth and fifth are small and simple.
Distinguished from Marathonites by the narrow dorsal lobe and from Pseudovidrioceras by the bicuspid branches of
the ventral lobe.

[Leonova, 1989, p. 143]:  Conch pachycone to subsphaericone, involute, with a tight umbilicus. Thin lamellae form a shallow
sinus on venter. Thickening of shell along umbilical rim. 20--22 lobes in all. Ventral lobe divided into two thin bifid parts by a
high median saddle. Three external lateral lobes, all threefid. Dorsal lobe tight, threefid. Three inner lateral lobes thin and
bi- or threefid. Umbilical segment consists of three to four small, whole or bifid lobes.