Loxopeltis problematica
No picture of Loxopeltis problematica was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Loxopeltis problematica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LoxopeltisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 508.2 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Loxopeltis problematica on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Loxopeltis problematica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Loxopeltis problematica and its relatives
CambrianWhere Loxopeltis problematica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Amecephalus cleora2 sites
- Fieldaspis celer2 sites
- Kochiella2 sites
- Kochiella eiffelensis2 sites
- Caborcella collaris1 site
- Dolichometopsis1 site
- Fieldaspis1 site
- Fieldaspis bilobata1 site
- Hadrocephalites1 site
- Hadrocephalites convexus1 site
- Kochiella maxeyi1 site
- Nisusia1 site
- Nyella rara1 site
- Onchocephalites laevis1 site
- Onchocephalus maior1 site
- Plagiura cercops1 site
- Protoconchioides rasettii1 site
- Scenella1 site
- Stenothecoides1 site
- Stenothecoides elongata1 site
- Syspacephalus crassus1 site
- Tichkaella carinata1 site
- Tichkaella insulcata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Loxopeltis problematica, 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
2 references- The Burgess Shale and associated Cambrian formations west of the Fossil Gully Fault Zone on Mount Stephen, British Columbia1
- Additional fossils from the Middle Cambrian Mt. Whyte Formation of the Canadian Rocky Mountains1
Each 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Loxopeltis problematica was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Loxopeltis problematica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Loxopeltis problematica was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itLoxopeltis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1957