Nileidae

Nileidae is a family of trilobites of the Asaphida order.

Nileidae

Amir Ali Iranshahi 3 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CyclopygoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 25 of 582 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 557 of 582 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 582 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 1 occurrence494–492 Mya — about 1 occurrence492–491 Mya — about 3 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 9 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 10 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 14 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 21 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 19 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 18 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 19 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 20 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 26 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 27 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 77 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 53 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 30 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 27 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 25 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 28 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 37 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 39 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 21 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 19 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 12 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 10 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 7 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 5 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya449.5 Mya498 Mya442 Mya

582 occurrences of Nileidae 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

582 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

149 formations

Antelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.67°WAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 39.20°N, 116.25°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 37.12°N, 116.50°WAntelope Valley — 36.39°N, 116.61°WTable Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WTable Cove — 48.58°N, 58.70°WTable Cove — 50.18°N, 57.62°WValhallfonna — 79.00°N, 18.00°EValhallfonna — 79.80°N, 17.76°EKomstad — 55.04°N, 14.88°ESaergan — 40.64°N, 79.50°ELlanfallteg — 52.00°N, 5.00°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.35°WLlanfallteg — 51.82°N, 4.48°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.67°WLlanfallteg — 51.85°N, 4.92°WZitai — 29.78°N, 111.13°EZitai — 29.31°N, 111.29°EVolkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EShenjiawan — 29.13°N, 110.95°ELatorp — 58.00°N, 14.00°ELatorp — 57.60°N, 13.42°ELatorp — 59.24°N, 14.94°EKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EKanling — 40.64°N, 79.50°EChedao — 37.00°N, 107.00°EChedao — 36.00°N, 107.00°EChedao — 36.08°N, 106.75°ECeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 57.00°N, 17.00°ECeratopyge — 55.58°N, 14.13°EBaota — 33.00°N, 111.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 107.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 110.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 118.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 106.00°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 28.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 110.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 30.90°N, 111.39°ESanta Rosita — 23.58°S, 65.37°WSanta Rosita — 22.76°S, 65.20°WSanta Rosita — 22.51°S, 65.10°WSaint-Chinian — 43.33°N, 2.53°ESaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°ESaint-Chinian — 43.33°N, 2.73°ETable Point — 50.70°N, 57.41°WTable Point — 50.36°N, 57.54°WTable Point — 49.37°N, 57.72°WLehman — 38.78°N, 113.59°WLehman — 38.60°N, 113.75°WLehman — 38.87°N, 113.42°WLehman — 38.88°N, 113.47°WDawangou — 40.64°N, 79.50°ETøyen — 59.73°N, 9.87°ETøyen — 59.72°N, 9.85°ETøyen — 59.92°N, 10.78°ETøyen — 59.79°N, 10.50°EFurudal — 58.00°N, 15.00°EFurudal — 60.91°N, 15.02°EFurudal — 60.92°N, 15.09°EFurudal — 62.97°N, 14.48°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 109.00°E

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The named rock units Nileidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 125 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 85 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nileidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Nileidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,335 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 461 sites for Nileidae, and this reads 240 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

141 references

Each of the 582 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. 129 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 Nileidae

Credit
Amir Ali Iranshahi 3
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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nileidae 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.

The description on this site

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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. Angelin 1854