Howesia

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| fossil_range = Middle Triassic, {{fossil_range|246}}

| image = Howesia browni.jpg

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| taxon = Howesia

| authority = Broom, 1905

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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†H. browni Broom, 1905 (type)

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Howesia is an extinct genus of basal rhynchosaur from early Middle Triassic (early Anisian stage) deposits of Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is known from the holotype SAM 5884, a partial skeleton with palate and partial lower jaws and from two paratypes, SAM 5885 and SAM 5886.{{cite journal |author=David M. Dilkes |year=1995 |title=The rhynchosaur Howesia browni from the Lower Triassic of South Africa |journal=Palaeontology |volume=38 |pages=665–685 }} It was found in the Burgersdorp Formation of the middle deposits of the Beaufort Group (Karoo Basin) and referred to Subzone B of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone.{{Cite journal|author1=Richard J. Butler |author2=Martín D. Ezcurra |author3=Felipe C. Montefeltro |author4=Adun Samathi |author5=Gabriela Sobral |year=2015 |title=A new species of basal rhynchosaur (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the early Middle Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution of Rhynchosauria |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=174 |issue=3 |pages=571–588 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12246 |doi-access=free |hdl=11449/167867 |hdl-access=free }} It was first named by Robert Broom in 1905 and the type species is Howesia browni, named after Alfred Brown.{{cite journal |author=Robert Broom |year=1905 |title=Preliminary notice of some new fossil Reptiles collected by Mr. Alfred Brown at Aliwal North, S. Africa |journal=Records of the Albany Museum |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=269–275 }}

Howesia in a cladogram based on Ezcurra et al. (2016):{{Cite journal|author1=Martin D. Ezcurra |author2=Felipe C. Montefeltro |author3=Richard J. Butler |year=2016 |url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/25096585/fevo_03_00142.pdf| title= The Early Evolution of Rhynchosaurs |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |volume=3 |pages=1–24|doi=10.3389/fevo.2015.00142|doi-access=free |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220111216/https://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/25096585/fevo_03_00142.pdf |archive-date=2024-02-20 |url-status=live }}

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|label1=Rhynchosauria

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|1=Noteosuchus

|2=Mesosuchus

|3=Howesia

|4=Eohyosaurus

|label5=Rhynchosauridae

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|label1=Stenaulorhynchinae