Loftusia

Loftusia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LoftusiidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Coscinophragmatacea

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 45 of 47 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 47 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya84.1 Mya61.2 Mya

47 occurrences of Loftusia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

47 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

5 formations

Zorbehan — 38.83°N, 37.83°ETarbur — 31.60°N, 51.20°ETarbur — 31.72°N, 51.20°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°EAruma — 25.20°N, 46.82°E

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The named rock units Loftusia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Loftusia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Loftusia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Loftusia, 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

6 references

Each of the 47 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

Media content1

Picture of Loftusia

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

No 3D scan of Loftusia 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itLoftusiidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.