Howittia

A picture published with the record for Howittia. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchinospiriferidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 385.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 383.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 43 occurrencesDevonian — about 43 of 43 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence410–409 Mya — about 3 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 3 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 3 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 3 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 3 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 3 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 3 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 3 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 3 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 3 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 3 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413.02 Mya385.9 Mya420.3 Mya382.7 Mya

43 occurrences of Howittia 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

43 occurrences

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

12 formations

Yukiang — 22.88°N, 108.87°EYukiang — 22.70°N, 109.22°EYukiang — 22.40°N, 107.50°ETaemas — 35.00°S, 149.00°ETaemas — 34.95°S, 148.82°ETaemas — 34.94°S, 148.82°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EPort Refugia — 55.50°N, 132.33°WSipai — 24.98°N, 109.98°ESipai — 23.92°N, 109.82°EBuchan Caves Limestone — 37.50°S, 148.18°EBuchan Caves Limestone — 37.12°S, 147.83°ETaravale Mudstone — 37.50°S, 148.18°ETaravale Mudstone — 37.12°S, 147.83°EGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EYintang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EYehlan — 22.00°N, 108.00°EKhao Loc — 23.18°N, 105.10°EDushan — 25.83°N, 107.57°E

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The named rock units Howittia 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.

Howittia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Howittia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

270 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Howittia, 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

10 references

Each of the 43 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

Media content1

Picture of Howittia

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEchinospiriferidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.