Niobides armatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NiobidesPBDB
- 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 477.1 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 491.5 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Niobides armatus 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
6 occurrences- Cambrian5%
- Ordovician95%
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 Niobides armatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Niobides armatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Niobides armatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Amzasskiella1 site
- Apatokephalus1 site
- Apheorthis vicina1 site
- Cordylodus intermedius1 site
- Cordylodus proavus1 site
- Didymograptus murchisoni1 site
- Eoconodontus notchpeakensis1 site
- Euloma1 site
- Finkelnburgia1 site
- Glaphurus1 site
- Harpioides assoensis1 site
- Hirsurtodontus cf. simplex1 site
- Hirsurtodontus cf. triangularis1 site
- Hirsurtodontus sp.1 site
- Hispidodontus1 site
- Hystricurus1 site
- Incaia1 site
- Isphella platycephala1 site
- Kaltykelina1 site
- Kaufmannella1 site
- Leiaguostus cf. miquelli1 site
- Macropyga urceolata1 site
- Megalaspidella kayseri1 site
- Megalaspis pugiocauda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Niobides armatus, 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
3 references- Ordovician trilobites of Argentina4
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- El sistema ordovicico en Bolivia1
Each of the 6 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 Niobides armatus 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 Niobides armatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Niobides armatus 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 itNiobides through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harrington and Leanza 1957