Nileus

Searched as Nileus glazialis glazialis. The Paleobiology Database treats Nileus as the accepted name.

Nileus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
NileidaePBDB
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 most 3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 469.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 8 of 8 occurrencesOrdovician472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472.6 Mya468.6 Mya

8 occurrences of Nileus 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

8 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.

Nileus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Nileus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 267 sites for Nileus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Nileus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNileidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalman 1827)