Howellella elegans

Howellella elegans

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HowellellaPBDB
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 least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 96 occurrencesSilurian — about 95 of 96 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 96 occurrencesDevonian444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 7 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 7 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 6 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 6 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 6 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 10 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 12 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 12 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 12 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya419.62 Mya443.7 Mya412.4 Mya

96 occurrences of 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

96 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

50 formations

Much Wenlock — 52.03°N, 2.40°WMuch Wenlock — 53.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.02°N, 2.57°WMuch Wenlock — 51.72°N, 2.90°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.32°N, 18.70°EUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EPaprieniai — 55.22°N, 23.87°EAttawapiskat — 52.93°N, 83.39°WAttawapiskat — 52.94°N, 83.07°WAttawapiskat — 55.68°N, 88.12°WAttawapiskat — 53.45°N, 82.91°WRiga — 55.08°N, 25.42°EGeluva — 55.08°N, 25.42°EGeluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°EDubysa — 55.08°N, 25.42°EDubysa — 54.65°N, 23.03°EPaadla — 58.00°N, 22.03°EPaadla — 58.28°N, 22.47°EPaadla — 58.12°N, 22.19°ELeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLeintwardine — 51.88°N, 2.23°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ELower Leintwardine — 52.00°N, 2.00°WBirstonas — 55.22°N, 23.87°EBringewood Beds — 51.90°N, 2.08°WLower Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EHogklint Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EMulde Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EHamra Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ESundre Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ELerberget Marlstone — 57.63°N, 18.30°ETorgu — 58.12°N, 22.21°E

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The named rock units Howellella elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Howellella elegans and its relatives

Silurian

Where Howellella elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

542 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for 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

36 references

Each of the 96 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Howellella elegans

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood 1925