Newellites richardsoni Plummer and Scott 1937

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Cyclolobidae

Alternative combination: Waagenoceras richardsoni

Full reference: F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516

Belongs to Newellites according to T. B. Leonova 2010

See also Bogoslovskaya 1990, Leonova 2002, Miller and Furnish 1940, Plummer and Scott 1937 and Zhao 1980

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UT B3373. Its type locality is B.E.G. 55-T-3, Chico Draw, southeast of Casey's Last Chance well, which is in a Wordian carbonate limestone in the Cherry Canyon Formation of Texas.

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 93.0

Distribution: found only at B.E.G. 55-T-3, Chico Draw, southeast of Casey's Last Chance well

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