Loxonema heteromorphum
No picture of Loxonema heteromorphum 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 Loxonema heteromorphum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 2.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Loxonema heteromorphum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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.
Loxonema heteromorphum and its relatives
PermianWhere Loxonema heteromorphum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Acanthopecten josephinae1 site
- Baylea salomonensis1 site
- Bitaunioceras zonatum1 site
- Ctenobactrites obliquesulcatus1 site
- Cyclus reussi1 site
- Enteletes oehlerti1 site
- Enteletes waageni1 site
- Epadrianites haueri1 site
- Gemmellaroia marii1 site
- Heterelasmina dieneri1 site
- Hyattoceras guembeli1 site
- Liroceras salomonense1 site
- Macrochilina conicus1 site
- Martinia lamellosa1 site
- Martinia orbicularis1 site
- Martinia semiramis1 site
- Martinia triquetra1 site
- Mimaria lepton1 site
- Neogriffithides pulchellus1 site
- Neoproetus (Siciliproetus) sicula1 site
- Neoproetus verrucosus1 site
- Notothyris ovalis1 site
- Orthoceras gradatum1 site
- Orthoceras oehlerti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Loxonema heteromorphum, 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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Loxonema heteromorphum 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 Loxonema heteromorphum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Loxonema heteromorphum 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 itLoxonema through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gemmellaro 1889