Enteletes wolfcampensis

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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 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
31 occurrences of Enteletes wolfcampensis 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
31 occurrences- Carboniferous19%
- Permian81%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Enteletes wolfcampensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Enteletes wolfcampensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Enteletes wolfcampensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
286 taxa- Teguliferina boesei21 sites
- Limbella wolfcampensis20 sites
- Composita strongyle14 sites
- Meekella prionota12 sites
- Orthotichia kozlowskii12 sites
- Derbyia profunda11 sites
- Eolyttonia fredericksi11 sites
- Meekella magnifica11 sites
- Orbicoelia tumibilis11 sites
- Parenteletes superbus11 sites
- Pontisia kingi11 sites
- Rhynchopora molina11 sites
- Hystriculina sulcata10 sites
- Neophricadothyris transversa10 sites
- Diplanus catatonus9 sites
- Lophophyllidium (Lophophyllidium) dunbari9 sites
- Rhipidomella miscella9 sites
- Derbyia carteri8 sites
- Geyerella kingorum8 sites
- Hustedia trita leptyca8 sites
- Linoproductus8 sites
- Orthotetella wolfcampensis8 sites
- Cenorhynchia hebata7 sites
- Cleiothyridina rectimarginata7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Enteletes wolfcampensis, 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
2 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI27
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda4
Each of the 31 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. 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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No 3D scan of Enteletes wolfcampensis 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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What may have been alongside itEnteletes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1931