Euphoberia

Euphoberia is an extinct genus of millipede from the Pennsylvanian epoch of the Late Carboniferous, measuring up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in) in length. It is a relatively small member of the Euphoberiidae, which contains species with length about 30 centimetres (12 in). Fossils have been found in Europe and North America.

Euphoberia

Samuel H. Scudder · Public Domain · 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
EuphoberiidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 309.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 44 of 44 occurrencesCarboniferous336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–315 Mya — about 2 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 6 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 14 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 14 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences330.3 Mya309.8 Mya336.5 Mya306.4 Mya

44 occurrences of Euphoberia 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

44 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

5 formations

Carbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 41.27°N, 88.23°WKladno — 49.71°N, 13.21°EBerthelsdorf — 51.12°N, 12.50°EPennant — 51.71°N, 3.91°WSaarbrucken’schen Kohlengebirges — 49.26°N, 7.00°E

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The named rock units Euphoberia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euphoberia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Euphoberia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Euphoberia, 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

11 references

Each of the 44 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. 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 Euphoberia

Credit
Samuel H. Scudder
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euphoberia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEuphoberiidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek and Worthen 1868