Enteletes merzbacheri Keidel 1906 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Enteletidae

Full reference: H. Keidel. 1906. Geologische Untersuchungen im südlichen Tian-Schan nebst Beschreibung einer obercarbonischen Brachiopodenfauna aus dem Kukurtkuk-Tal. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 22:266-384

Belongs to Enteletes according to H. Keidel 1906

Sister taxa: Enteletes acutiplicatus, Enteletes andii, Enteletes andrewsi, Enteletes angulatoplicata, Enteletes angulatus, Enteletes asymmatrosis, Enteletes bowsheri, Enteletes carnicus, Enteletes carniolicus, Enteletes conjunctus, Enteletes costellatus, Enteletes densus, Enteletes dieneri, Enteletes dumblei, Enteletes dzhagrensis, Enteletes elegans, Enteletes elegans, Enteletes exiguus, Enteletes ferrugineus, Enteletes geniculatus, Enteletes gibbosus, Enteletes globosus, Enteletes granti, Enteletes haugi, Enteletes hemiplicata, Enteletes huadongensis, Enteletes imperans, Enteletes intermedius, Enteletes kayseri, Enteletes khammonensis, Enteletes laevissimus, Enteletes lamarckii, Enteletes lateroplicatus, Enteletes leonardensis, Enteletes liumbonus, Enteletes lukouensis, Enteletes meridionalis, Enteletes microplocus, Enteletes mioplicata, Enteletes multiplicatus, Enteletes najae, Enteletes nodosus, Enteletes nucleolus, Enteletes obscura, Enteletes obsoletus, Enteletes oehlerti, Enteletes pentameroides, Enteletes plummeri, Enteletes pusilloplicata, Enteletes retardata, Enteletes rotundobesus, Enteletes salopeki, Enteletes singularis, Enteletes socialis, Enteletes spinosus, Enteletes stehlii, Enteletes subaequivalvis, Enteletes subcircularis, Enteletes subnudus, Enteletes subobesa, Enteletes talimuheensis, Enteletes tenuistriatus, Enteletes transversus, Enteletes tschernyscheffi, Enteletes tschernyschewi, Enteletes waageni, Enteletes wannanensis, Enteletes wolfcampensis, Enteletes wordensis, Punctoproductus eximius

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kukurtuk-Tal, Tian Shan, which is in an Asselian/Sakmarian carbonate limestone in China

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kukurtuk-Tal, Tian Shan

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