Loxobucania evoluta

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LoxobucaniaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 456.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 452.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician461–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.2 Mya456.6 Mya461.6 Mya452 Mya

2 occurrences of Loxobucania evoluta 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

2 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

2 formations

Llandeilo — 55.25°N, 4.85°WBalclatchie — 55.23°N, 4.87°W

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The named rock units Loxobucania evoluta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Loxobucania evoluta and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Loxobucania evoluta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Loxobucania evoluta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Loxobucania evoluta 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 itLoxobucania through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reed 1921)