Howittia

Searched as Howittia wangi. The Paleobiology Database treats Howittia as the accepted name.

No picture of Howittia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Howittia itself, so it was not used. 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, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 most 9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420.1 Mya410.1 Mya

3 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

3 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

2 formations

Khao Loc — 23.18°N, 105.10°EKhao Loc — 23.06°N, 104.93°EBac Bun — 21.68°N, 106.56°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.

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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content0

No picture of Howittia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Howittia itself, so it was not used.

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, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Howittia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEchinospiriferidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.