Loxonema nitida
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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 least 3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.5 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 456.6 Mya to 449.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Loxonema nitida on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Mill Formation · Whitehouse Group1
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardmillan Group1
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The named rock units Loxonema nitida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Loxonema nitida and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Loxonema nitida and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Actinomena1 site
- Bimuria perrugata1 site
- Boucotspira ordovicus1 site
- Bucania playfairi1 site
- Bucaniopsis forbesi1 site
- Carinaropsis gracilis1 site
- Eccyliomphalus balclatchiensis1 site
- Eccyliomphalus macromphalus1 site
- Glyptomenoides girvanensis1 site
- Hormotoma nigra1 site
- Hormotoma striatula1 site
- Isospira huttoni1 site
- Joleaudella transiens1 site
- Leolites candidus1 site
- Liospira equilis1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Lophospira shallockensis1 site
- Mimospira balclatchiensis1 site
- Orthotheca subornatus1 site
- Phacops (Calliops) jukesi vicina1 site
- Phragmolites girvanensis1 site
- Pinnocaris lapworthi1 site
- Plectambonites praeteritus1 site
- Plethospira caledoniensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Loxonema nitida, 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 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Loxonema nitida 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 nitida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Loxonema nitida 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 OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Longstaff 1924)