pars 1937  Welleritidae Plummer & Scott: 375.
     1952  Welleritidae.-Ruzhentsev: 131.
     1957  Welleritinae Miller & Furnish: L66 (nom.transl. ex
           Welleritidae Plummer & Scott).
     1958  Welleritinae.-Miller & Furnish: 264.
     1962  Welleritinae.-Osnovy: 387.
     1965  Welleritinae.-Gordon: 271.
     1981  Aqishanoceratidae Wang: 472.
     1992  Welleritinae.-Kyuma & Nishida: 5.

A:   Ventral side flattened, in some forms with ventral groove,
rarely rounded.
G:   In the course of phylogeny development of second
adventitious lobe and several additional suture elements in the
umbilical area.