Loxonematidae
Loxonematidae is an extinct taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LoxonematoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 260 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
713 occurrences of Loxonematidae 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
713 occurrences- Ordovician15%
- Silurian22%
- Devonian32%
- Carboniferous3%
- Permian7%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassic12%
- Late Triassic9%
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
240 formations
- Schlern Formation31
- Kopanina Formation27
- Cassian Formation · Wegen Group20
- Overton Formation17
- Trochitenkalk Formation · Muschelkalk Group17
- Skaneateles Formation15
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The named rock units Loxonematidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 216 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Loxonematidae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Loxonematidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
2,799 taxa- Loxonema77 sites
- Orthoceras51 sites
- Crinoidea42 sites
- Gastropoda41 sites
- Bivalvia39 sites
- Nuculites32 sites
- Favosites31 sites
- Bryozoa30 sites
- Rugosa30 sites
- Howellella26 sites
- Modiolopsis26 sites
- Palaeoneilo26 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis25 sites
- Nucleospira25 sites
- Nautiloidea24 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata24 sites
- Ctenodonta22 sites
- Fenestella22 sites
- Omospira trentonensis22 sites
- Rhynchonellidae22 sites
- Ambocoelia21 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus21 sites
- Craniops20 sites
- Isorthis20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 516 sites for Loxonematidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
211 references- Palaeoecology of Late Ladinian (Middle Triassic) benthic faunas from the Schlern/Sciliar and Seiser Alm/Alpe di Siusi area (South Tyrol, Italy)31
- Perner, 190328
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)24
- Perner, 190723
- The Silurian and Early Devonian Faunas of the Heathcote District, Victoria19
- Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England17
- Early Devonian gastropods from the north Pribalkhash region, central Kazakhstan, USSR17
- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota15
- Redefinition, Stratigraphy and Depostional Environments of the Mottville Member (Hamilton Group) in Central and Eastern New York15
- Silicified Early Devonian (Lochkovian) gastropods from Windellama, south-eastern Australia14
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland13
- Faunal lists from Muschelkalk Museum, Ingelfingen, Germany12
Each of the 713 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. 199 further references are not listed. 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 Loxonematidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- BerndH
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Loxonematidae 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.
The description on this site
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- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLoxonematoidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koken 1889