Howqualepis rostridens
No picture of Howqualepis rostridens 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 Howqualepis rostridens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HowqualepisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Howqualepis rostridens on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Lower mudstone unit Formation · Avon River Group1
- Bindaree Formation · Wellington Volcanic Group1
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The named rock units Howqualepis rostridens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Howqualepis rostridens and its relatives
DevonianWhere Howqualepis rostridens and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Bothriolepis cullodenensis2 sites
- Bothriolepis fergusoni2 sites
- Bothriolepis gippslandiensis2 sites
- Howittacanthus kentoni2 sites
- Marsdenichthys longioccipitus2 sites
- Actinistia1 site
- Austrophyllolepis ritchei1 site
- Austrophyllolepis ritchiei1 site
- Austrophyllolepis youngi1 site
- Barwickia downunda1 site
- Beelarongia patrichae1 site
- Culmacanthus stewarti1 site
- Dipnoi1 site
- Gavinia syntrips1 site
- Groenlandaspis howittensis1 site
- Gronlandaspis1 site
- Howidipterus donnae1 site
- Howittichthys warranae1 site
- Porolepidiformes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Howqualepis rostridens, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Unique dental arrangement in a new species, Groenlandaspis howittensis (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Middle Devonian of Mount Howitt, Victoria, Australia.1
- New Palaeoniscoid fishes from the Late Devonian - Early Carboniferous of Victoria, Australia1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Howqualepis rostridens 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 Howqualepis rostridens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Howqualepis rostridens 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 itHowqualepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Long 1988