Howellella (Howellella) elegans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Howellella (Howellella)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 421.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Howellella (Howellella) elegans on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
6 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
6 formations
- Wenlock Shale Formation1
- Lower Flaxley Beds Formation1
- Upper Flaxley Beds Formation1
- Upper Blaisdon Beds Formation1
- Lower Longhope Beds Formation1
- Upper Longhope Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Howellella (Howellella) elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Howellella (Howellella) elegans and its relatives
SilurianWhere Howellella (Howellella) elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Atrypa reticularis5 sites
- Bryozoa5 sites
- Calymene5 sites
- Chonetes5 sites
- Craniops5 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Beyrichia4 sites
- Dalmanella4 sites
- Kionoceras4 sites
- Mesoleptostrophia filosa4 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula4 sites
- Dalmanites3 sites
- Fuchsella amygdalina3 sites
- Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis3 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis3 sites
- Pseudolingula lewisii3 sites
- Pterinea3 sites
- Pteronitella3 sites
- Resserella3 sites
- Rugadiscina rugata3 sites
- Shaleria (Janiomya) ornatella3 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni3 sites
- Stenopora3 sites
- Tentaculites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Howellella (Howellella) elegans, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Howellella (Howellella) elegans 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 Howellella (Howellella) elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Howellella (Howellella) elegans 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 itHowellella (Howellella) through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Muir-Wood 1925)