Euomphalopterus

Euomphalopterus

the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuomphalopterinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 70 occurrencesSilurian — about 68 of 70 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 70 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–437 Mya — about 3 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 4 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 9 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 12 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 17 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 7 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438.6 Mya399.5 Mya444 Mya392 Mya

70 occurrences of Euomphalopterus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

70 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

36 formations

Kopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.33°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EBagovitsa — 48.68°N, 26.58°EBagovitsa — 48.55°N, 26.49°EBagovitsa — 48.76°N, 26.39°ELower Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°ESlite Beds — 57.75°N, 18.73°EGuelph — 43.68°N, 80.43°WGuelph — 43.34°N, 80.32°WGuelph — 44.18°N, 80.82°WHogklint — 57.50°N, 18.55°ECanon de Caballeros — 23.75°N, 99.26°WKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EWilloughby Limestone — 58.60°N, 136.12°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WCape Phillips — 74.10°N, 94.00°WKangaroo Creek — 41.38°N, 122.69°WAttawapiskat — 55.68°N, 88.12°WKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°EWych Beds — 52.05°N, 2.72°WFerriters Cove — 52.13°N, 10.25°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°ELerberget Marlstone — 57.63°N, 18.30°ELouisville — 40.58°N, 86.67°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WPatrick Burn — 55.65°N, 3.92°WLimestone Mountain — 63.27°N, 154.55°WBrinkmarsh Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WVik — 59.90°N, 10.52°E

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The named rock units Euomphalopterus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euomphalopterus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Euomphalopterus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

996 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Euomphalopterus, 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

33 references

Each of the 70 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. 21 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 Euomphalopterus

Credit
the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euomphalopterus 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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What may have been alongside itEuomphalopterinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1876)