Loxostomoides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ForaminiferaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
2 occurrences of Loxostomoides on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous50%
- Paleocene50%
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
- Pflugerville Formation · Austin Group1
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The named rock units Loxostomoides 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.
Loxostomoides and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Loxostomoides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Astacodes maxwelli1 site
- Astrocratis acutispina1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Ceratolamarckina1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Endoplocytia sp.1 site
- Gaudryina1 site
- Gaudryina (Siphogaudryina) austinana1 site
- Globoconusa daubjergensis1 site
- Lenticulina1 site
- Notopoides pflugervillensis1 site
- Ophiuroidea1 site
- Parasubbotina pseudobulloides1 site
- Protocallianassa pleuralum1 site
- Pseudoclavulina1 site
- Pseudogaudryinella1 site
- Subbotina triloculinoides1 site
- Thoracosaurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Loxostomoides, 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- The first Polish find of lower Paleocene crocodile Thoracosaurus Leidy, 1852: geological and palaeontological description1
- Astrocratis acutispina, new genus and species, a new asteroid from the Late Cretaceous of Texas1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Loxostomoides
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Loxostomoides 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itForaminifera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.