Inoceramus howelli
No picture of Inoceramus howelli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Inoceramus howelli 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 Inoceramus howelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- InoceramusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Inoceramus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Inoceramus
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Inoceramus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Inoceramus howelli on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Inoceramus howelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Inoceramus howelli and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Inoceramus howelli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Anatina2 sites
- Cymbophora2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Prionocyclus hyatti2 sites
- Syncyclonema2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- Trigonarca2 sites
- Cameleolopha sannionis1 site
- Coilopoceras springeri1 site
- Crassostrea soleniscus1 site
- Cryptorhytis1 site
- Cyrena1 site
- Gyrodes conradi1 site
- Gyrodes depressus1 site
- Heterotissotia1 site
- Inoceramus dimidius1 site
- Lopha1 site
- Ophiomorpha1 site
- Pinna1 site
- Pleuriocardia (Dochmocardia) pauperculum1 site
- Pyropsis1 site
- Scapanorhynchus raphiodon1 site
- Sinonia1 site
- Synoriacarcinus kauffmani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Inoceramus howelli, 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
2 references- Semilla Sandstone, a new member of the Mancos Shale in the southeastern part of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico2
- Cretaceous sedimentation and tectonism in the southeastern Kaiparowits region, Utah1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Inoceramus howelli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Inoceramus howelli 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 Inoceramus howelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Inoceramus howelli 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 itInoceramus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1876