Wellergyi subdecussatus Geinitz 1866 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Alternative combination: Pleurotomaria subdecussatus

Full reference: N.B. Geinitz. 1866. Carbonformation und Dyas in Nebraska. Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie Naturforscher Verhandlungen 33:1-92

Belongs to Wellergyi according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Geinitz 1866 and Thein and Nitecki 1974

Sister taxa: Wellergyi brazerianum, Wellergyi chesterensis, Wellergyi dunlopi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Nebraska City Section, Clay Pits southeast of Nebraska City, which is in a Virgilian marine shale in the Pillsbury Shale Formation of Nebraska

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Nebraska City Section, Clay Pits southeast of Nebraska City

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