Howellites ultimus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HowellitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 457.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Howellites ultimus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Allt Ddu Formation · Lower Bala Group2
- Allt-Ddu Mudstones Formation · Allt-Ddu Group1
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The named rock units Howellites ultimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Howellites ultimus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Howellites ultimus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Bicuspina3 sites
- Colaptomena expansa prolata3 sites
- Reuschella horderleyensis3 sites
- Rostricellula3 sites
- Broeggerolithus2 sites
- Brongniartella minor2 sites
- Dinorthis berwynensis2 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Leptaena ventricosa2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) musculosa2 sites
- Strophomena2 sites
- <isotelinid>1 site
- Balacrinus1 site
- Broeggerolithus broeggeri1 site
- Cardiolaria1 site
- Cuneamya1 site
- Cyclonema1 site
- Cyrtodonta1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Dinorthis1 site
- Flexicalymene1 site
- Kiaeromena1 site
- Kiaeromena (Kiaeromena) harperi1 site
- Kiaeromena (Kiaeromena) kjerulfi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Howellites ultimus, 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
3 references- The Caradoc faunal associations of the area between Bala and Dines, North Wales1
- The Stratigraphy of the Bala District, Merionethshire1
- The Caradocian brachiopod faunas of the Bala District, Merionethshire1
Each of the 3 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 Howellites ultimus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Howellites ultimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Howellites ultimus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHowellites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bancroft 1945)