Nikiforovaena
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PinguispiriferinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya.
11 occurrences of Nikiforovaena 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Lianghetang Formation3
- Kulamat Formation2
- Garra Formation1
- Zhangjiatun Formation1
- Kuanti Formation1
- Xiushan Formation1
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The named rock units Nikiforovaena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nikiforovaena and its relatives
DevonianWhere Nikiforovaena and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Macropleura4 sites
- Striispirifer4 sites
- Eospirifer3 sites
- Ostracoda3 sites
- Schizophoria3 sites
- Trilobita3 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypina2 sites
- Atrypoidea2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Boucotia2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Molongia2 sites
- Nalivkinia2 sites
- Nucleospira2 sites
- Protathyris2 sites
- Reticulariopsis2 sites
- Reticulatrypa2 sites
- Retziella2 sites
- Rugosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Nikiforovaena, 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
5 references- Early Devonian brachiopod and trace fossil communitires from southeastern Guangxi4
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China3
- Tyazheva et al., 19762
- Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example1
- Brachiopods of the Garra Formation (Lower Devonian), Wellington area, New South Wales, Australia: Rhynchonellida, Spiriferida, Terebratulida1
Each of the 11 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
Media content0
No picture of Nikiforovaena 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 Nikiforovaena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nikiforovaena 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 itPinguispiriferinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.