ammonites
Enteletes retardata Huang 1933 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Enteletidae

Full reference: T. K. Huang. 1933. Late Permian Brachiopoda of southwestern China, Part 2. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 9(2):1-172

Belongs to Enteletes according to L. Angiolini and L. Carabelli 2010

Sister taxa: Enteletes acutiplicatus, Enteletes andii, Enteletes andrewsi, Enteletes angulatoplicata, Enteletes angulatus, Enteletes asymmatrosis, Enteletes bowsheri, Enteletes carnica, Enteletes carniolicus, Enteletes conjunctus, Enteletes contractus, Enteletes costellatus, Enteletes densus, Enteletes dieneri, Enteletes dumblei, Enteletes dzhagrensis, Enteletes elegans, Enteletes exiguus, Enteletes ferrugineus, Enteletes geniculatus, Enteletes gibbosus, Enteletes globosus, Enteletes granti, Enteletes haugi, Enteletes hemiplicata, Enteletes imperans, Enteletes kayseri, Enteletes laevissimus, Enteletes lamarcki, Enteletes lateroplicatus, Enteletes leonardensis, Enteletes liumbonus, Enteletes lukouensis, Enteletes meridionalis, Enteletes merzbacheri, Enteletes microplocus, Enteletes mioplicata, Enteletes najae, Enteletes nucleolus, Enteletes obscura, Enteletes obsoletus, Enteletes oehlerti, Enteletes pentameroides, Enteletes plummeri, Enteletes pusilloplicata, Enteletes rotundobesus, Enteletes salopeki, Enteletes singularis, Enteletes socialis, Enteletes stehlii, Enteletes subaequivalvis, Enteletes subcircularis, Enteletes subnudus, Enteletes subobesa, Enteletes talimuheensis, Enteletes tenuistriatus, Enteletes tschernyscheffi, Enteletes tschernyschewi, Enteletes waageni, Enteletes wannanensis, Enteletes wolfcampensis, Enteletes wordensis

Type specimen: NIGP 4671. Its type locality is Kaochien, Locality 1349, Wengan-hsien, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate limestone in China.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 9.57 x 11.12, valve 10.9 x 12.7