Howelella elegans
No picture of Howelella elegans was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Howelella elegans firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 433.5 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Howelella 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Howelella elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Howelella elegans and its relatives
SilurianWhere Howelella elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus2 sites
- Dalejina hybrida2 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba2 sites
- Eoplectodonta duvalii2 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus2 sites
- Isorthis2 sites
- Isorthis (Tyersella) amplificata2 sites
- Jonesea grayi2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) segmentum2 sites
- Leptaena holcrofti2 sites
- Lissatrypa obovata2 sites
- Nucleospira pisum2 sites
- Resserella canalis2 sites
- Resserella sabrinae2 sites
- Skenidioides lewisii2 sites
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypina1 site
- Clorinda1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Cyrtia1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
- Dolerorthis rustica1 site
- Eomartiniopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Howelella 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
2 references- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Vilkaviskis-129 boring1
- Experience of Brachiopod community separation from the Silurian of Lithuania1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Howelella elegans was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Howelella elegans firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Howelella elegans 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 itFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.