Loxoconcha fischeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LoxoconchaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Loxoconchidae
Time the record covers
At least 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Loxoconcha fischeri on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Loxoconcha fischeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Cativella3 sites
- Costa3 sites
- Cytherella3 sites
- Cytheropteron3 sites
- Caudites2 sites
- Cytherelloidea2 sites
- Mutilus2 sites
- Orionina2 sites
- Paracytheridea vandenboldi2 sites
- Acropora cervicornis1 site
- Agaricia1 site
- Agaricia agaricites1 site
- Agaricia lamarcki1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Basslerites1 site
- Brachidontes modiolus1 site
- Bythoceratina1 site
- Candonopsis1 site
- Chama sinuosa1 site
- Colpophyllia natans1 site
- Cyprideis1 site
- Cytheridella1 site
- Dichocoenia stokesi1 site
- Eucypris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Loxoconcha fischeri, 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- Upper Miocene Ostracoda from the Tubará Formation (northern Colombia)3
- Unusual Holocene serpulid-tufa bioherms, Enriquillo Valley, Dominican. Republic: Morphologies and paleoenvironmental implications1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Loxoconcha fischeri 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 Loxoconcha fischeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Loxoconcha fischeri 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 itLoxoconcha through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brady 1869)