It is based on a large sample of jaws and other skull and postcranial fragments, discovered in an approximately 220 million years old layer of rock in the Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation at Petrified Forest National Park.

Small femora (thigh bones) indicate that legs were still present in Funcusvermis, despite its modern relatives being completely legless.

[3] The discovery of Funcusvermis provides a strong link between caecilians and other lissamphibians (frogs and salamanders), as well as extinct dissorophoid temnospondyls such as Gerobatrachus.

It supports the consensus hypothesis for lissamphibian evolution, with Lissamphibia as a monophyletic group with a single common ancestor among the dissorophoids.

[1][2] The species name honors collections manager Ned Gilmore of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.