Wellsites williamsi Wells 1956 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Triainoceratidae

Alternative combinations: Beloceras (Idiobeloceras) williamsi, Beloceras williamsi

Full reference: J. W. Wells. 1956. The Ammonoids Koenenites and Beloceras in the Upper Devonian of New York. Journal of Paleontology 30(3):749-751

Belongs to Wellsites according to M. R. House and W. T. Kirchgasser 2008

See also Korn and Klug 2002, Wells 1956 and Yatskov 1990

Sister taxon: Wellsites tynani

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cayuta - Bald Mountain, which is in a Frasnian marine shale in the Chemung Formation of New York

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cayuta - Bald Mountain

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