Enteletes tschernyscheffi
Searched as Enteletes tschernyschewi. The Paleobiology Database treats Enteletes tschernyscheffi as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnteletesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
29 occurrences of Enteletes tschernyscheffi on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
29 occurrences- Permian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
8 formations
- Changxing Formation6
- Lengwu Formation5
- Wujiaping Formation2
- Gyanyima Formation2
- Episkopi Formation1
- Sungai Toh Formation1
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The named rock units Enteletes tschernyscheffi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Enteletes tschernyscheffi and its relatives
PermianWhere Enteletes tschernyscheffi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
367 taxa- Uncinunellina timorensis7 sites
- Leptodus nobilis6 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa6 sites
- Haydenella kiangsiensis5 sites
- Martinia semiplana5 sites
- Alphaneospirifer anshunensis4 sites
- Elivina tibetana4 sites
- Enteletes kayseri4 sites
- Hemiptychina inflata4 sites
- Martinia4 sites
- Martinia nucula4 sites
- Meekella4 sites
- Notothyris triplicata4 sites
- Perigeyerella costellata4 sites
- Rostranteris mediterraneum4 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni4 sites
- Waagenoconcha (Gruntoconcha) abichi4 sites
- Choristitella wynnei3 sites
- Compressoproductus compressus3 sites
- Compressoproductus mongolicus3 sites
- Costiferina subcostata3 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Edriosteges poyangensis3 sites
- Enteletes subaequivalvis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Enteletes tschernyscheffi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
18 references- Lengwu Formation of Permian and its Brachiopod Fauna in Zhejiang Province5
- Zeng et al., 19953
- End-Permian mass extinction and palaeoenvironmental changes in Neotethys: Evidence from an oceanic carbonate section in southwestern Tibet2
- Guadalupian brachiopods from Djebel Tebaga de Medenine, south Tunisia2
- Upper Permian bryozoans from eastern Sichuan and western Guizhou2
- Permian fossils of the Central Himalayas2
- La Fauna dei Calcari Con Fusulina della Valle del Fiume Sosio nella Provincia di Palermo, Brachiopoda2
- Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, Late Permian) brachiopods from the Episkopi Formation of Hydra Island, Greece1
- Guadalupian (Middle Permian) brachiopods from Sungai Toh, a Leptodus Shale locality in the central belt of peninsular Malaysia1
- Discovery of Permian belemnoids in south China, with comments on the origin of Coleoidea1
- Paleozoic brachiopods from Xizang (Tibet)1
- Brachiopoda1
Each of the 29 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 6 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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Picture of Enteletes tschernyscheffi
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No 3D scan of Enteletes tschernyscheffi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Diener 1897