Niobe frontalis
No picture of Niobe frontalis 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 Niobe frontalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NiobePBDB
- 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 most 7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Niobe frontalis 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
7 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Niobe frontalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Niobe frontalis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Niobe frontalis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Megistaspis6 sites
- Metopolichas celorrhin6 sites
- Ampyx nasutus5 sites
- Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps5 sites
- Illaenus5 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) extenuata5 sites
- Pliomera fisheri5 sites
- Cyrtometopus affinis4 sites
- Pseudasaphus4 sites
- Pterygometopus sclerops4 sites
- Ptychopyge4 sites
- Cyrtometopus3 sites
- Laneites ingrica3 sites
- Nieszkowskia tumida3 sites
- Trinodus3 sites
- Cyrtometopus clavifrons2 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons2 sites
- Nileus armadillo2 sites
- Remopleurides2 sites
- Antigonambonites planus1 site
- Apomatella1 site
- Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus1 site
- Asaphus broeggeri1 site
- Asteusloffia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Niobe frontalis, 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
2 references- The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland6
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Niobe frontalis 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 Niobe frontalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Niobe frontalis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNiobe through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalman 1827)