Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Enteletidae

Full reference: G. Xu and R. E. Grant. 1994. Brachiopods near the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 76:1-68

Belongs to Enteletes according to G. Xu and R. E. Grant 1994

Sister taxa: Enteletes acutiplicatus, Enteletes andii, Enteletes andrewsi, Enteletes angulatoplicata, Enteletes angulatus, 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 retardata, 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: USNM 455978. Its type locality is Xikou Section, Zhenan County, which is in a Changhsingian marine horizon in the Longdongchuan Formation of China.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 17.6 x 18.5