Loxocardium obliquum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LoxocardiumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
14 occurrences of Loxocardium obliquum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
14 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
- Banc à verrins Formation6
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group5
- Sables a Nummulites variolarius Formation1
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The named rock units Loxocardium obliquum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Loxocardium obliquum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Loxocardium obliquum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
594 taxa- Notocorbula rugosa8 sites
- Rimella fissurella8 sites
- Caryocorbula striata7 sites
- Costacallista laevigata7 sites
- Elliptotellina tellinella7 sites
- Glycymeris pulvinata7 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera7 sites
- Acteon6 sites
- Barbatia6 sites
- Bittium6 sites
- Cardita6 sites
- Cardium6 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina6 sites
- Crassatella6 sites
- Gibberula6 sites
- Glycymeris6 sites
- Natica6 sites
- Sigmesalia multisulcata6 sites
- Varicorbula minuta6 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum5 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa5 sites
- Cardita costaenodulosis5 sites
- Cominella douvillei5 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Loxocardium obliquum, 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
4 references- The molluscs of the “Falunière” of Grignon (Middle Lutetian, Yvelines, France): quantification of lithification bias and its impact on the biodiversity assessment of the Middle Eocene of Western Europe6
- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria5
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)2
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques1
Each of the 14 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 content0
No picture of Loxocardium obliquum 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 Loxocardium obliquum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Loxocardium obliquum 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 itLoxocardium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1805)