Ningkianolithus

Ningkianolithus is an extinct genus of trilobites in the family Trinucleidae. The genus lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.

No picture of Ningkianolithus 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 Ningkianolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrinucleidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trinucleidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 457.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 478.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 30 of 30 occurrencesOrdovician479–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 4 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471.3 Mya457.2 Mya479.4 Mya448.9 Mya

30 occurrences of Ningkianolithus 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

30 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

9 formations

Dawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 108.00°EDawan — 30.00°N, 116.00°EDawan — 30.90°N, 111.39°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 105.00°EZhitai — 29.00°N, 109.00°EXiliangsi — 32.00°N, 106.00°EHongsiya — 26.00°N, 102.00°EShinianpan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 106.00°EChaochiapa — 32.76°N, 106.36°ESiliangssu — 33.06°N, 106.63°E

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The named rock units Ningkianolithus 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.

Ningkianolithus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ningkianolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Ningkianolithus, 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

12 references

Each of the 30 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 Ningkianolithus 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 Ningkianolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ningkianolithus 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.

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. Lu 1954