Loxonema praeteritum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LoxonemaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 9 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 9 occurrencesDevonian444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 1 occurrence418–417 Mya — about 1 occurrence417–416 Mya — about 1 occurrence416–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence414–413 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–412 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440.5 Mya413.02 Mya443.8 Mya410 Mya

9 occurrences of Loxonema praeteritum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

9 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

3 formations

Kokbajtal — 48.24°N, 76.89°EKokbajtal — 47.30°N, 77.80°EPribalkhash — 48.24°N, 76.89°EMulloch Hill — 55.24°N, 4.84°W

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

Loxonema praeteritum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Loxonema praeteritum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Loxonema praeteritum, 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

2 references

Each of the 9 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 Loxonema praeteritum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Loxonema praeteritum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itLoxonema through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Longstaff 1909)