Nikolivia depressa
No picture of Nikolivia depressa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Nikolivia depressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NikoliviaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Nikolivia depressa on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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 Nikolivia depressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nikolivia depressa and its relatives
DevonianWhere Nikolivia depressa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Cephalaspis4 sites
- Corvaspis4 sites
- Nikolivia elongata4 sites
- Turinia pagei4 sites
- Boreania minima3 sites
- Canonia grossi3 sites
- Machairaspis3 sites
- Nikolivia gutta3 sites
- Nostolepis3 sites
- Poraspis3 sites
- Traquairaspis3 sites
- Actinopterygii2 sites
- Dinaspidella2 sites
- Homalaspidella2 sites
- Pattenaspis2 sites
- Pattenaspis acuminata2 sites
- Protopteraspis primaeva2 sites
- Waengsjoeaspis2 sites
- Anglaspis1 site
- Anglaspis elongata1 site
- Anglaspis heintzi1 site
- Anglaspis insignis1 site
- Apalolepis1 site
- Apalolepis angelica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nikolivia depressa, 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
1 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Nikolivia depressa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Nikolivia depressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nikolivia depressa 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNikolivia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blom and Goujet 2002