Otwayia hermata

Howickia is a genus of lesser dung flies in the family Sphaeroceridae. There are more than 60 described species in Howickia, found in Australia and New Zealand.

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

Stephen Thorpe Depicted place: Auckland, New Zealand ( 36°55′31″S 174°42′16″E / 36.925362°S 174.704451°E / -36.925362… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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.

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143.6 Mya125.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Otwayia hermata on record, most of them in the Early 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

4 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

1 formation

Rintoul Creek — 38.12°S, 146.50°E

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The named rock units Otwayia hermata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Otwayia hermata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Otwayia hermata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Otwayia hermata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Otwayia hermata

Credit
Stephen Thorpe Depicted place: Auckland, New Zealand ( 36°55′31″S 174°42′16″E / 36.925362°S 174.704451°E / -36.925362…
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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Otwayia hermata 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.