Nileus armadillo
No picture of Nileus armadillo 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 Nileus armadillo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NileusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Nileidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
16 occurrences of Nileus armadillo 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
16 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Nileus armadillo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nileus armadillo and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nileus armadillo and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Illaenus5 sites
- Tersella sainsburyi4 sites
- Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps3 sites
- Megistaspis3 sites
- Trilobita3 sites
- Ampyx nasutus2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Cephalopoda2 sites
- Cloacaspis ekphymosa2 sites
- Cyrtometopus2 sites
- Cyrtometopus affinis2 sites
- Didymograptus2 sites
- Didymograptus murchisoni2 sites
- Graptolithina2 sites
- Harpides2 sites
- Hyolithes2 sites
- Laneites ingrica2 sites
- Metopolichas celorrhin2 sites
- Nieszkowskia tumida2 sites
- Niobe frontalis2 sites
- Niobella kanauguki2 sites
- Orthis2 sites
- Orthis callactis2 sites
- Pliomera fisheri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Nileus armadillo, 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
7 references- Description of the upper portion of the drill-core from Finngrundet in the South Bothnian Bay5
- The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland3
- Geology and Ore Deposits of the Central York Mountains, Western Seward Peninsula, Alaska2
- Early Ordovician trilobites from the Seward Peninsula, Alaska2
- The Lower Palaeozoic fossils of the Northern Shan States, Burma. With a section of Ordovician cystidea by F. A. Bather [q.v.]2
- Locality 4 : 2 Ontika Clint1
- The Chasmops Series of the Kullatorp Core1
Each of the 16 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 content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Adrian Gyllingberg
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No picture of Nileus armadillo 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 Nileus armadillo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNileus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dalman 1826