Niobe (Niobella)

Niobella Reed, 1931, a relative of Niobe (Niobella) — not Niobe (Niobella) itself

Not Niobe (Niobella). This is Niobella Reed, 1931, a relative — both are Asaphidae.

Courtessole (Abbé), Robert · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NiobePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 470.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 465.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 31 of 120 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 89 of 120 occurrencesOrdovician498–497 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 1 occurrence495–494 Mya — about 1 occurrence494–493 Mya — about 1 occurrence493–492 Mya — about 1 occurrence492–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 6 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 6 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 6 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 6 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 3 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 4 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 4 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 6 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 5 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 4 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 4 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 4 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 4 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 5 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 6 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 6 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 7 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 8 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 9 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 5 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya470.7 Mya497.6 Mya465.3 Mya

120 occurrences of Niobe (Niobella) on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

120 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

40 formations

Tøyen — 59.65°N, 9.65°ETøyen — 59.92°N, 10.78°ETøyen — 59.73°N, 9.87°ETøyen — 59.72°N, 9.85°ETøyen — 59.68°N, 10.71°EShenjiawan — 29.13°N, 110.95°EKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EBestogai — 43.53°N, 69.95°ELatorp — 58.00°N, 14.00°ELatorp — 59.24°N, 14.94°EKomstad — 55.04°N, 14.88°EGuotang — 26.00°N, 108.00°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°EYinzhupu — 30.00°N, 119.00°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°EGoodwin — 39.20°N, 116.25°WGoodwin — 39.10°N, 116.26°WDawan — 30.86°N, 111.37°EBjorkasholmen — 59.14°N, 11.18°EBjorkasholmen — 59.73°N, 9.87°ECeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 57.00°N, 17.00°EVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 3.00°EModder River Siltstone — 42.42°S, 145.35°EVolkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°ELeetse — 59.40°N, 24.61°ELeetse — 59.43°N, 24.79°ELeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°ESandu — 25.99°N, 107.89°EToyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EMilina — 49.80°N, 13.80°EGuapayito — 3.57°N, 73.77°WOutram — 52.88°N, 118.08°WLa Maurerie — 43.46°N, 3.00°E

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The named rock units Niobe (Niobella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Niobe (Niobella) and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Niobe (Niobella) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

535 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Niobe (Niobella), 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

43 references

Each of the 120 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. 31 further references are not listed. 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 Niobella Reed, 1931

Source
GBIF
Credit
Courtessole (Abbé), Robert
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Niobe (Niobella) 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reed 1931)