Enteletes angulatus Girty 1908 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Enteletidae

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1908. The Guadalupian fauna. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 58:1-651

Belongs to Enteletes according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976

Sister taxa: Enteletes acutiplicatus, Enteletes andii, Enteletes andrewsi, Enteletes angulatoplicata, 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 merzbacheri, 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: USNM 118553, a valve (Ventral valve). Its type locality is USGS 3764a green, Diablo Mountains, which is in an Artinskian carbonate limestone in the Hueco Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS 3764a green, Diablo Mountains

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