Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Enteletidae
Full reference: R. E. King. 1931. The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda. The University of Texas Bulletin 3042:1-245
Belongs to Enteletes according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976
See also King 1931
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 merzbacheri, Enteletes microplocus, Enteletes mioplicata, Enteletes multiplicatus, Enteletes najae, Enteletes nodosus, Enteletes nucleolus, Enteletes obscura, Enteletes obsoletus, Enteletes oehlerti, Enteletes pentameroides, 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: YPM 12667, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is USNM708x, Leonard Mountain, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (31: Texas collections)
Total: 31 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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