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Euphoberia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	237504	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=237504

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Myriapoda : Euphoberiida : Euphoberiidae : Euphoberia

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
class	Myriapoda
-	Dignatha	Tiegs 1947
subclass	Diplopoda	Gervais 1844
subclass	Chilognatha
infraclass	Helminthomorpha
superorder	Archipolypoda
order	Euphoberiida	Hoffman 1969
family	Euphoberiidae	Scudder 1882
genus	Euphoberia	Meek and Worthen 1868

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Euphoberia	genus	belongs to Euphoberidae	stated with evidence	Scudder, 1890
Euphoberia	genus	belongs to Euphoberiidae	stated with evidence	Pruvost, 1930

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

336 - 326 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

311 - 307 Ma
Carboniferous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1868. Preliminary notice of a scorpion, a Eurypterus? and other fossils from the Coal-measures of Illinois. American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series 46:19-28

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Euphoberia absens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia anguilla ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia armigera ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	9	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia brownii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia carri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia cuspidata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia ferox ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	318 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia flabellata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia granosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia histrix ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia horrida ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia hystricosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia lithanthracis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia simplex ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia spinulosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia tracta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous
Euphoberia varians ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	311 Ma Carboniferous	311 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1868	Euphoberia Meek and Worthen p. 26
1890	Euphoberia Scudder p. 425
1911	Euphoberia Baldwin p. 77
1930	Euphoberia Pruvost p. 168
1969	Euphoberia Hoffman p. 577
2008	Euphoberia Štamberg and Zajíc p. 81

References

Meek F. B., Worthen A. H. Preliminary notice of a scorpion, a Eurypterus? and other fossils from the Coal-measures of Illinois, American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series 46, 19-28

Scudder S. H. New Carboniferous Myriapoda from Illinois, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 4, 417-442

Baldwin W. (1911) Fossil myriopods from the Middle Coal-Measures of Spath Bottoms, Rochdale, Lancashire, Geological Magazine, Decade V 8, 74-80

Pruvost P. (1930) La faune continentale du terrain houiller de la Belgique, Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 44, 105-282

Hoffman R. L. (1969) Myriapoda, exclusive of Insecta, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part 4, Arthropoda 4 2, 572-606

Štamberg S., Zajíc J. (2008) , Carboniferous and Permian Faunas and their Occurrence in the Limnic Basins of the Czech Republic, 1-224

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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