Enteletes plummeri

Enteletes plummeri

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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 most 8.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 31 of 31 occurrencesPermian283–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–282 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–282 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–282 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–280 Mya — about 1 occurrence280–280 Mya — about 1 occurrence280–280 Mya — about 1 occurrence280–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–276 Mya — about 1 occurrence276–276 Mya — about 1 occurrence276–276 Mya — about 1 occurrence276–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–274 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283.8 Mya273.9 Mya

31 occurrences of Enteletes plummeri 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

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

3 formations

Cathedral Mountain — 30.22°N, 103.43°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.36°N, 103.19°WCathedral Mountain — 30.33°N, 103.23°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.30°WCathedral Mountain — 30.25°N, 103.37°WSkinner Ranch — 30.29°N, 103.30°WSkinner Ranch — 30.33°N, 103.24°WBone Spring — 31.88°N, 104.89°W

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The named rock units Enteletes plummeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Enteletes plummeri and its relatives

Permian

Where Enteletes plummeri and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

346 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Enteletes plummeri, 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

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

Media content1

Picture of Enteletes plummeri

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No 3D scan of Enteletes plummeri 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. King 1931