Howellites Bancroft 1945 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae

Full reference: B. B. Bancroft. 1945. The brachiopod zonal indices of the stages Costonian to Onnian in Britain. Journal of Paleontology 19(3):181-252

Parent taxon: Dalmanellinae according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Bancroftina, Cryptothyris, Eremotrema, Minororthis, Mirorthis, Onnizetina, Paucicrura, Ravozetina, Trucizetina, Wysogorskiella

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of United States (1: Alaska collection)

• Silurian of Australia (1), Lithuania (2), Norway (10)

• Dobrotivian of Spain (4)

• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Belarus (4), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (21), Ireland (4), Latvia (4), Lithuania (15), Morocco (2), Norway (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (31)

Total: 109 collections including 113 occurrences

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