Niobe

Niobe is a genus of trilobites in the family Asaphidae.

Niobe

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NiobinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Cambrian — about 31 of 216 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 185 of 216 occurrencesOrdovician498–496 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 2 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 8 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 9 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 8 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 9 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 12 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 13 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 10 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 10 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 9 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 11 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 15 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 15 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 28 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 19 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 7 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 7 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 4 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486.85 Mya457.3 Mya497.9 Mya448.7 Mya

216 occurrences of Niobe 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

216 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

57 formations

Table Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WTable Cove — 48.58°N, 58.70°WTable Cove — 50.24°N, 57.59°WTøyen — 59.72°N, 9.85°ETøyen — 59.73°N, 9.87°ETøyen — 59.65°N, 9.65°ETøyen — 59.92°N, 10.78°ETøyen — 59.92°N, 9.97°ETøyen — 59.91°N, 10.64°ETøyen — 59.68°N, 10.71°EVolkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EVolkhov — 59.82°N, 32.20°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°EYinzhupu — 28.00°N, 118.00°EYinzhupu — 30.00°N, 120.00°EYinzhupu — 30.00°N, 119.00°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 119.00°EShenjiawan — 29.13°N, 110.95°EHolen — 57.32°N, 17.00°EHolen — 57.15°N, 16.92°EHolen — 57.03°N, 16.88°EHolen — 57.17°N, 16.94°EHolen — 56.62°N, 16.56°EKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°ELatorp — 58.00°N, 14.00°ELatorp — 59.24°N, 14.94°ECeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 57.00°N, 17.00°ECeratopyge — 55.58°N, 14.13°EBestogai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 37.12°N, 116.50°WDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 30.86°N, 111.37°EKomstad — 55.04°N, 14.88°EBjorkasholmen — 59.14°N, 11.18°EBjorkasholmen — 59.73°N, 9.87°EGuotang — 26.00°N, 108.00°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°EGoodwin — 39.20°N, 116.25°WGoodwin — 39.10°N, 116.26°WValhallfonna — 79.80°N, 17.76°EVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 3.00°EModder River Siltstone — 42.42°S, 145.35°EGarden City — 41.97°N, 111.47°WGarden City — 42.11°N, 111.63°WKanosh Shale — 38.60°N, 113.75°WKanosh Shale — 38.88°N, 113.47°WBjørkasholmen — 59.79°N, 10.50°EBjorkasholmen or Tøyen — 60.91°N, 10.70°E

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The named rock units Niobe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Niobe and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Niobe and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

878 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 168 sites for Niobe, 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

61 references

Each of the 216 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. 49 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 content2

Picture of Niobe

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Mouch
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1851