Loxostomum

Loxostomum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LoxostomatidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 55 occurrencesPleistocene — about 47 of 55 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 42 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

55 occurrences of Loxostomum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

55 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

1 formation

Gehannam — 29.24°N, 30.11°E

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The named rock units Loxostomum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Loxostomum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Loxostomum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

131 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Loxostomum, 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

10 references

Each of the 55 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 content2

Picture of Loxostomum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Loxostomum sp. · l-cb:U1419B-1H-5W-36-38 (S5D_6)

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLoxostomatidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1854