Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Niobe (Niobella)PBDB
- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 474.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Ceratopyge5 sites
- Bienvillia angelini4 sites
- Euloma4 sites
- Nileus4 sites
- Harpides3 sites
- Orometopus3 sites
- Symphysurus angustatus3 sites
- Varvia3 sites
- Agerina2 sites
- Apatokephalus serratus2 sites
- Archaeorthis christianiae2 sites
- Broeggeria salteri2 sites
- Conophrys pusilla2 sites
- Dikelokephalina2 sites
- Geragnostus crassus2 sites
- Parapilekia2 sites
- Promegalaspides (Borogothus) intactus2 sites
- Protopliomerops2 sites
- Sinuitella norvegica2 sites
- Symphysurina2 sites
- Acerocare1 site
- Acrotreta1 site
- Arthrorhachis mobergi1 site
- Broeggeria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta, 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
4 references- On the Early Ordovician of Sweden stratigraphy and fauna2
- Trilobites of the Tremadoc Bjørkåsholmen Formation in the Oslo Region, Norway1
- Trilobites of the Hagastrand Member (Tøyen Formation, lowermost Arenig) from tbe Oslo Region, Norway, Part Il : Remaining non-asaphid groups1
- Rare Tremadocian trilobites from Norway1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta 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 itNiobe (Niobella) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnarsson 1869)