Loxoconcha jacksonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LoxoconchaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Loxoconchidae
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Loxoconcha jacksonensis 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
11 occurrencesThese 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 Loxoconcha jacksonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Loxoconcha jacksonensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Loxoconcha jacksonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Actinocythereis3 sites
- Acuticythereis3 sites
- Archicythereis3 sites
- Brachycythere watervalleyensis3 sites
- Buntonia shubutaensis3 sites
- Clithrocytheridea3 sites
- Cushmanidea3 sites
- Cyamocytheridea3 sites
- Cytheretta alexanderi3 sites
- Cytheridea garretti3 sites
- Cytheridea grigsbyi3 sites
- Cytheridea montgomeryensis3 sites
- Cytheropteron montgomeryensis3 sites
- Henryhowella3 sites
- Hermanites3 sites
- Konarocythere3 sites
- Trachyleberis3 sites
- Triginglymus3 sites
- Absonocytheropteron2 sites
- Cytherelloidea2 sites
- Cytheromorpha2 sites
- Echinocythereis2 sites
- Paracypris franquesi2 sites
- Brachycythere1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Loxoconcha jacksonensis, 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 referencesEach of the 11 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
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No picture of Loxoconcha jacksonensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Loxoconcha jacksonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Loxoconcha jacksonensis 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 itLoxoconcha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howe and Chambers 1935