Euphemites

Euphemites is an extinct genus of gastropod belonging to order Bellerophontida and family Euphemitidae. They may have been among the first burrowing gastropods.

Euphemites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuphemitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Euphemitidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Euphemitidae

Time the record covers

At least 133 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 532 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 278 of 532 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 251 of 532 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 532 occurrences396–391 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences391–386 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences377–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–362 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 4 occurrences357–352 Mya — about 9 occurrences352–347 Mya — about 8 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 6 occurrences342–337 Mya — about 4 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 20 occurrences333–328 Mya — about 22 occurrences328–323 Mya — about 21 occurrences323–318 Mya — about 12 occurrences318–313 Mya — about 6 occurrences313–308 Mya — about 67 occurrences308–303 Mya — about 55 occurrences303–298 Mya — about 45 occurrences298–293 Mya — about 3 occurrences293–288 Mya — about 11 occurrences288–283 Mya — about 4 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 28 occurrences279–274 Mya — about 28 occurrences274–269 Mya — about 19 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 20 occurrences264–259 Mya — about 15 occurrences259–254 Mya — about 61 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 62 occurrences387.95 Mya254.14 Mya396 Mya249 Mya

532 occurrences of Euphemites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

532 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

142 formations

Chhidru — 32.25°N, 71.14°EChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.44°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.52°N, 72.11°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 72.00°EChhidru — 32.24°N, 71.15°EChhidru — 32.32°N, 71.18°EChhidru — 32.41°N, 72.10°EChhidru — 32.47°N, 71.95°EChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°EAllegheny — 40.88°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 40.90°N, 80.85°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.77°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.70°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WAllegheny — 40.93°N, 80.48°WAllegheny — 40.18°N, 81.95°WAllegheny — 39.87°N, 81.70°WAllegheny — 40.52°N, 81.47°WAllegheny — 40.07°N, 82.35°WAllegheny — 38.65°N, 82.67°WAllegheny — 38.38°N, 82.08°WAllegheny — 39.47°N, 83.75°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 34.90°N, 96.43°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WWewoka — 34.87°N, 96.47°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WLoray — 39.21°N, 114.97°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.32°WLoray — 39.48°N, 115.13°WWargal — 32.61°N, 71.76°EWargal — 32.57°N, 72.41°EWargal — 32.48°N, 72.27°EWargal — 32.45°N, 72.22°EWargal — 32.50°N, 72.03°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.77°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.91°WPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPark City — 43.17°N, 109.17°WPark City — 42.59°N, 108.63°WPark City — 42.80°N, 108.89°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WKaibab — 34.62°N, 111.09°WKaibab — 34.62°N, 110.77°WKaibab — 36.77°N, 111.65°WKaibab — 38.78°N, 110.69°WRustler — 31.60°N, 104.23°WRustler — 31.65°N, 104.21°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.88°WHueco — 31.92°N, 104.94°WHueco — 32.40°N, 105.95°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.79°N, 91.91°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.44°WImo — 35.79°N, 92.77°WImo — 35.74°N, 93.28°WImo — 35.75°N, 92.94°WCabaniss — 38.10°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 38.33°N, 94.02°WCabaniss — 37.82°N, 91.56°WWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°WWassonville — 41.48°N, 91.83°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCherry Canyon — 31.87°N, 104.87°WDangarfield — 32.05°S, 150.92°EDangarfield — 32.03°S, 150.97°EWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WTsingyuan — 37.45°N, 105.67°ETsingyuan — 39.00°N, 106.00°EDiamond Peak — 39.48°N, 115.45°WPhosphoria — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPhosphoria — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPhosphoria — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPhosphoria — 42.57°N, 108.41°WMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°W

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The named rock units Euphemites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 118 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euphemites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Euphemites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2,528 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 446 sites for Euphemites, 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

129 references

Each of the 532 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. 117 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

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Picture of Euphemites

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No 3D scan of Euphemites 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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What may have been alongside itEuphemitinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Warthin 1930