1969  Newellites Furnish & Glenister in Davis, Furnish & Glenister: 105.
     2002  Newellites.-Leonova: S87.

Type species: Waagenoceras richardsoni Plummer & Scott, 1937, p.158; [OD].

A:   Large size of shell (150-200 mm diameter); ultimate whorl lenticular, geniculate.
G:   Cyclolobids with an intermediate sutural complexity (8 pairs of external lateral lobes, plus the umbilical complex).