Euomphalus
Uncredited · 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
- EuomphalidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 251 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
378 occurrences of Euomphalus 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
378 occurrences- Ordovician1%
- Silurian2%
- Devonian11%
- Carboniferous41%
- Permian36%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassic4%
- Late Triassic5%
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
148 formations
- Hueco Formation20
- Imo Formation11
- Maxville Limestone Formation11
- Tin Mountain Formation11
- Clyde Formation10
- Diamond Peak Formation9
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The named rock units Euomphalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 124 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Euomphalus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Euomphalus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
3,278 taxa- Straparollus (Euomphalus) cornudanus43 sites
- Crinoidea27 sites
- Aviculopecten25 sites
- Bellerophon22 sites
- Edmondia21 sites
- Gastropoda21 sites
- Parallelodon21 sites
- Spirifer21 sites
- Dielasma18 sites
- Syringopora18 sites
- Fenestella17 sites
- Camarotoechia16 sites
- Chonetes16 sites
- Composita16 sites
- Hustedia16 sites
- Omphalotrochus obtusispira16 sites
- Bellerophontoidea15 sites
- Cleiothyridina15 sites
- Sanguinolites15 sites
- Schizodus15 sites
- Euphemites14 sites
- Loxonema14 sites
- Apachella franciscana13 sites
- Bryozoa13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 321 sites for Euomphalus, 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
154 references- Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 1. Euomphalacea, Trochonematacea, Pesudophoracea, Anomphalacea, Craspedostomatacea, and Platyceratacea57
- Gastropods (Mollusca) from the Imo Formation (Mississippian, Chesterian) of north-central Arkansas11
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska11
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of Lower Permian rocks north of Cananea, northern Sonora, Mexico8
- The fauna of the Maxville Limestone8
- Carboniferous Faunal Associations and Stratigraphy, Shasta County, Northern California7
- Supai Formation (Permian) of eastern Arizona7
- Mississippian and Devonian paleontology and stratigraphy, Quartz Spring area Inyo County, California7
- A gastropod fauna from the Cravenoceras hesperium ammonoid zone (Upper Mississippian) in east-central Nevada6
- Paleontology, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology of the Palmarito Formation (Permian of Venezuela)6
- The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire6
- Faune du calcaire carbonifère de la Belgique, 3e partie, Gastéropodes6
Each of the 378 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. 142 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 content2
Picture of Euomphalus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- EDDyLab @ULiege
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itEuomphalidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1814)