Enteletes
Searched as Enteletes derbyi demissa. The Paleobiology Database treats Enteletes as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnteletidaePBDB
- 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 most 8.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Enteletes 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Enteletes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Enteletes and its relatives
PermianWhere Enteletes and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,725 taxa- Derbyia64 sites
- Composita50 sites
- Hustedia44 sites
- Dielasma35 sites
- Crinoidea32 sites
- Acosarina minuta31 sites
- Rhipidomella hessensis29 sites
- Crurithyris28 sites
- Echinauris28 sites
- Institella leonardensis28 sites
- Meekella calathica28 sites
- Phricodothyris28 sites
- Diplanus lamellatus27 sites
- Stenoscisma27 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys26 sites
- Linoproductus26 sites
- Meekella hessensis25 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer25 sites
- Chonosteges variabilis23 sites
- Hercosia uddeni23 sites
- Echinauris irregularis22 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis22 sites
- Rhipidomella hispidula22 sites
- Permophricodothyris bullata21 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 508 sites for Enteletes, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Enteletes
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Enteletes 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 itEnteletidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waldheim 1825