Loxonema boydii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LoxonemaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 422.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Loxonema boydii 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
1 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 Loxonema boydii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Loxonema boydii and its relatives
SilurianWhere Loxonema boydii and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Codonocheilus striatum1 site
- Coelocaulus longispira1 site
- Coelocaulus turritiformis1 site
- Conotoma bispiralis1 site
- Cyrtospira ventricosus1 site
- Cyrtostropha macrospira1 site
- Guelphinacella canadense1 site
- Isfarispira perlata1 site
- Loxonema magnum1 site
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus1 site
- Loxoplocus soluta1 site
- Oriostoma globosum1 site
- Pachystrophia inornatum1 site
- Ptychocaulus bivittata1 site
- Pycnomphalus obesus1 site
- Subulites compactus1 site
- Tremanotus angustata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Loxonema boydii, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Loxonema boydii
- 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 Loxonema boydii 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 itLoxonema through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1843