Howellites aenigmus
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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 6.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Howellites aenigmus 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Howellites aenigmus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Howellites aenigmus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Howellites aenigmus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Acrotretida1 site
- Amphiplecia bondarevi1 site
- Catazyga1 site
- Cyclospira orbus1 site
- Cyrtiinida indet.1 site
- Cyrtonotella1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Dicoelosia1 site
- Drummuckina1 site
- Ectenoglossa1 site
- Eoplectodonta1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) rhombica1 site
- Eospirigerina vetusta1 site
- Epitomyonia1 site
- Euroatrypa tajmyrica1 site
- Fardenia1 site
- Geniculina1 site
- Hesperorthis1 site
- Holorhynchus giganteus1 site
- Holtedahlina1 site
- Laticrura1 site
- Leangella1 site
- Leptaenida indet.1 site
- Multispinula bondarevi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Howellites aenigmus, 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 1 occurrence 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 Howellites aenigmus 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 aenigmus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Howellites aenigmus 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. (Nikiforova 1985)