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Euphemites urei

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae

Taxonomy
Bellerophon urii was named by Fleming (1828) [Bellerophon Urii]. It is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Euphemites, Euphemus.

It was corrected as Bellerophon urei by Phillips (1841); it was recombined as Euphemus urii by M'Coy (1844); it was recombined as Euphemus urei by de Koninck (1883); it was recombined as Euphemites urii by Knight (1941) and Batten (1966); it was recombined as Euphemites urei by Warthin (1930), Weir (1931), Rollins (1975), Pan (1997), Amler and Heidelberger (2003) and Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Bellerophon urii Fleming p. 338
1841Bellerophon urei Phillips p. 106 figs. pl. 40 f. 199a, c (not b, d)
1844Euphemus urii M'Coy p. 25
1883Euphemus urei de Koninck p. 159
1930Euphemites urei Warthin p. 44
1931Euphemites urei Weir pp. 845 - 849 figs. pl. 9 f. 3-8
1941Euphemites urii Knight pp. 123 - 124 figs. pl. 12 f. 5a-d
1966Euphemites urii Batten p. 7 figs. pl. 1 f. 4-5
1975Euphemites urei Rollins pp. 6 - 7 figs. f. 2d-f
1997Euphemites urei Pan pp. 602 - 606 figs. f. 4.5-4.7
2003Euphemites urei Amler and Heidelberger p. 1162
2023Euphemites urei Wagner p. 3871

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
orderBellerophontidaUlrich and Scofield 1897
suborderBellerophontina
superfamilyBellerophontoidea()
familyEuphemitidae
subfamilyEuphemitinae
genusEuphemites
speciesurei()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Euphemites urei Fleming 1828
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Composition 2: low Mg calciteo
Locomotion: actively mobileg
Life habit: infaunalg
Diet: carnivoreg
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2004-08-16 10:23:56
Modified: 2009-09-20 23:27:44
Source: g = genus, o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Wagner 2023

Age range: base of the Kinderhookian to the top of the Arnsbergian or 360.70000 to 318.10000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kinderhookian360.7 - 353.8USA (Iowa) Euphemites urei (49823 49824 49825 49826)
Brigantian336.0 - 326.4United Kingdom (England) Euphemites urei (73391 73393 73400 73402 73416 73423) Euphemites urii (57131)
Brigantian336.0 - 326.4United Kingdom (Scotland) Euphemus urei (154671)
Arnsbergian326.4 - 318.1United Kingdom (England) Euphemites ardenensis (162360 162361)
Bashkirian323.2 - 315.2China (Nei Mongol) Euphemites urei (673)