Nikiforovella

Nikiforovella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NikiforovellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 6 of 26 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 15 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 26 occurrencesPermian374–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences367–363 Mya — about 2 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 3 occurrences359–355 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences355–351 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences351–347 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences347–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–293 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–265 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences358.86 Mya266.9 Mya374 Mya258 Mya

26 occurrences of Nikiforovella on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

26 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

8 formations

Velbert — 51.30°N, 6.87°EVelbert — 51.35°N, 7.06°EEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WSierra del Castillo — 38.65°N, 6.44°WSierra del Castillo — 38.18°N, 5.02°WSierra del Castillo — 38.29°N, 5.25°WSierra del Castillo — 38.30°N, 5.28°WBazardarin — 37.72°N, 74.54°EValdeteja — 42.92°N, 5.40°WValdeteja — 42.93°N, 5.97°WNew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WLake Valley — 33.02°N, 107.93°WSiphonodendron Limestone — 38.45°N, 6.38°W

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The named rock units Nikiforovella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nikiforovella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Nikiforovella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Nikiforovella, 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

12 references

Each of the 26 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 content1

Picture of Nikiforovella

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nikiforovella 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 itNikiforovellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.