Howelella sp.
No picture of Howelella sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Howelella sp. 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Howelella sp. 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Howelella sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Howelella sp. and its relatives
SilurianWhere Howelella sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Eospirifer radiatus3 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus2 sites
- Dalejina hybrida2 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba2 sites
- Eoplectodonta duvalii2 sites
- Howelella elegans2 sites
- Howellella2 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
- Actinodictyon suevicum1 site
- Alispira1 site
- Atrypina1 site
- Clorinda1 site
- Craniops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Howelella sp., 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
4 references- Bohemian-type Silurian (Telychian) bivalves from Arctic Russia1
- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Vilkaviskis-129 boring1
- Experience of Brachiopod community separation from the Silurian of Lithuania1
- Brakhiopody Pentamerida i Spiriferida silura Estonii - Siluran Brachiopods Pentamerida and Spiriferida of Estonia1
Each of the 4 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 Howelella sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Howelella sp. 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 sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.