Anomphalus

The Anomphalidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. These are archaeogastropods which are included in the suborder Trochina. The Anomphalidae lived during the Paleozoic, from the Silurian to the Middle Permian. According to some authorities these snails belong instead to the Euomphalacea.

Anomphalus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnomphalidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Anomphalidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Anomphalidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Anomphalidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 209 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 124 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 37 of 124 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 71 of 124 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 124 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 124 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 124 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 124 occurrences417–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence365–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–351 Mya — about 2 occurrences351–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–336 Mya — about 1 occurrence336–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences321–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–306 Mya — about 19 occurrences306–299 Mya — about 7 occurrences299–291 Mya — about 9 occurrences291–284 Mya — about 6 occurrences284–277 Mya — about 14 occurrences277–269 Mya — about 16 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 11 occurrences262–254 Mya — about 13 occurrences254–247 Mya — about 7 occurrences247–240 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–232 Mya — about 5 occurrences232–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–217 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences217–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–195 Mya — about 2 occurrences410.62 Mya201.4 Mya417 Mya195 Mya

124 occurrences of Anomphalus 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

124 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

66 formations

Road Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.07°ELoray — 39.21°N, 114.98°WTak Fa — 15.32°N, 100.43°EVerkhnii Uslon — 55.36°N, 49.09°EPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WPalmarito — 8.02°N, 71.38°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.14°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.15°WHeshan — 23.77°N, 108.86°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°EHueco — 31.97°N, 106.53°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.08°WCabaniss — 37.84°N, 91.56°WCabaniss — 38.39°N, 93.75°WCabaniss — 38.34°N, 93.85°WCassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EBac Thuy — 21.72°N, 106.67°EBac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°EBird Spring — 36.60°N, 114.79°WBird Spring — 36.55°N, 115.69°WWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.80°WWatahomigi — 35.71°N, 113.38°W"Carboniferous" — 50.85°N, 20.42°EFord — 54.88°N, 1.39°WMaokou — 28.18°N, 105.15°EMaokou — 27.85°N, 105.20°EPeski — 55.25°N, 38.68°EPeski — 55.74°N, 37.63°EZechstein — 51.20°N, 15.10°EZechstein — 51.17°N, 15.34°EZechstein — 50.67°N, 11.57°EZechstein — 51.63°N, 10.46°EKhao Khad — 14.79°N, 100.88°ETin Mountain — 36.39°N, 117.43°WTin Mountain — 36.74°N, 117.45°W

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The named rock units Anomphalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anomphalus and its relatives

Permian

Where Anomphalus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,687 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Anomphalus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

59 references

Each of the 124 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. 47 further references are not listed. 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 Anomphalus

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iDigBio
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via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Anomphalus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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. Meek and Worthen 1866