Howittia dushanensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HowittiaPBDB
- 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 most 2.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 385.9 Mya and 383.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Howittia dushanensis 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Howittia dushanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Howittia dushanensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Howittia dushanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Actinostroma undulatum1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Alveolites fornicatus1 site
- Argustarea thomasi1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Cladopora1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa1 site
- Clathrocoilona crassitexta1 site
- Clathrocoilona obliterata1 site
- Crassialveolites1 site
- Cystiphylloides1 site
- Disphyllum intermedium1 site
- Emanuella plicata1 site
- Fistuliporella1 site
- Fistuliramus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Habrostroma1 site
- Hedstroemia1 site
- Leiorhychus <sp. A>1 site
- Litophyllum1 site
- Mastopora compacta1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Parallelopora ostiolata1 site
- Pseudozaphrentis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Howittia dushanensis, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Howittia dushanensis 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 Howittia dushanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Howittia dushanensis 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 itHowittia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang et al. 1974