Ataphrus howsei
No picture of Ataphrus howsei 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 Ataphrus howsei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtaphrusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ataphrus howsei on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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.
Ataphrus howsei and its relatives
PermianWhere Ataphrus howsei and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Acanthopecten josephinae2 sites
- Annuliconcha acanthica2 sites
- Arceodomus fritschi2 sites
- Arceodomus siculum2 sites
- Chrysostoma tornatum2 sites
- Edmondia guembeli2 sites
- Edmondia multilamellosa2 sites
- Enteletes elegans2 sites
- Enteletes meridionalis2 sites
- Enteletes oehlerti2 sites
- Enteletes tschernyschewi2 sites
- Enteletes waageni2 sites
- Geinitzia catherinae2 sites
- Gemmellaroia marii2 sites
- Girtypecten fimbriata2 sites
- Hemiptychina pygmaea2 sites
- Heterelasmina dieneri2 sites
- Heterelasmina genuflexa2 sites
- Lima connectens2 sites
- Limatulina consanguinea2 sites
- Martinia aviformis2 sites
- Martinia lamellosa2 sites
- Martinia orbicularis2 sites
- Martinia polymorpha2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ataphrus howsei, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ataphrus howsei 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 Ataphrus howsei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ataphrus howsei 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAtaphrus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gemmellaro 1889)