Howchinia

No picture of Howchinia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Howchinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LasiodiscidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 7 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous348–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.3 Mya315.2 Mya347.6 Mya302.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Howchinia 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

7 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

Cuera Limestone — 43.45°N, 4.92°WLores Limestone — 43.00°N, 4.48°WArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°EMarbella — 37.32°N, 3.33°WBou-Rifi — 32.92°N, 5.65°W

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The named rock units Howchinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Howchinia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Howchinia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Howchinia, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 content0

No picture of Howchinia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Howchinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Howchinia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itLasiodiscidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1927