Loxocardium bouei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LoxocardiumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
3 occurrences of Loxocardium bouei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Loxocardium bouei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Loxocardium bouei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Loxocardium bouei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
319 taxa- Bittium3 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mixta3 sites
- Rimella fissurella3 sites
- Spirancilla buccinoides3 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata2 sites
- Callocardia (Nitidavenus) nitidula2 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum2 sites
- Caryocorbula striata2 sites
- Cerithiopsis2 sites
- Clavilithes2 sites
- Clavilithes noae2 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Crommium2 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
- Euspira2 sites
- Gibbolucina gibbosula2 sites
- Mimachlamys plebeia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Loxocardium bouei, 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
3 references- Les Bivalves et Gastéropodes du Bruxellien inférieur de la Belgique (Eocène moyen)1
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)1
- Feeding habits of predatory gastropods in a Tertiary (Eocene) molluscan assemblage from the Paris Basin1
Each of the 3 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 Loxocardium bouei
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Loxocardium bouei 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 itLoxocardium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1858)