Loxoplocus gothlandicus

No picture of Loxoplocus gothlandicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Loxoplocus gothlandicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LoxoplocusPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 24 occurrencesSilurian — about 24 of 24 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438.6 Mya425 Mya443.6 Mya422.2 Mya

24 occurrences of Loxoplocus gothlandicus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

24 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

14 formations

Slite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°ESlite Beds — 57.75°N, 18.73°EKopanina — 49.97°N, 14.17°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.10°EGuelph — 43.34°N, 80.32°WGuelph — 44.18°N, 80.82°WGuelph — 43.43°N, 80.31°WKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EXiushan — 26.58°N, 107.92°ERacine Dolomite — 43.05°N, 88.02°WGoat Island — 43.17°N, 78.41°WBrassfield — 37.63°N, 84.16°WBagovitsa — 48.55°N, 26.49°ESlite — 57.74°N, 18.49°EHangvar — 57.74°N, 18.49°E

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

Loxoplocus gothlandicus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Loxoplocus gothlandicus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

544 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Loxoplocus gothlandicus, 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

11 references

Each of the 24 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 Loxoplocus gothlandicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Loxoplocus gothlandicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Loxoplocus gothlandicus 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 itLoxoplocus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)