Loxoplocus soluta
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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 most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Loxoplocus soluta 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Loxoplocus soluta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Loxoplocus soluta and its relatives
SilurianWhere Loxoplocus soluta and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Coelocaulus longispira4 sites
- Pycnomphalus obesus4 sites
- Codonocheilus striatum3 sites
- Coelocaulus turritiformis3 sites
- Cyrtostropha macrospira3 sites
- Euomphalopterus valeria3 sites
- Kirkospira vitellia3 sites
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus3 sites
- Pachystrophia inornatum3 sites
- Ptychocaulus bivittata3 sites
- Tremanotus angustata3 sites
- Cyrtospira ventricosus2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Michelia whiteavesi2 sites
- Oriostoma globosum2 sites
- Spinicharybdis elora2 sites
- Spiroraphe galtensis2 sites
- Subulites compactus2 sites
- Turritoma constricta2 sites
- Amphistrophia1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Blastozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Loxoplocus soluta, 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- On some new, imperfectly characterized or previously unrecorded species of fossils from the Guelph Formations of Ontario3
- Revision of the fauna of the Guelph formation of Ontario, with descriptions of a few new species1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. 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 soluta 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 Loxoplocus soluta, 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 itLoxoplocus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whiteaves 1884)