Philoxene laevis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Straparollus (Philoxene)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Straparollus (Philoxene)
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Straparollus (Philoxene)
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Straparollus (Philoxene)
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
29 occurrences of Philoxene laevis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
29 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
10 formations
- Kowala Formation11
- Torquay Formation · Tamar Group4
- Cürten Formation2
- Bücheler Formation2
- Massenkalk Formation1
- Ahrdorf Formation1
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The named rock units Philoxene laevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Philoxene laevis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Philoxene laevis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
317 taxa- Bellerophon lineatus9 sites
- Coloniacirrus bifida7 sites
- Euryzone delphinuloides7 sites
- Bensbergia subcostata6 sites
- Clathronema reticulata6 sites
- Devonorhineoderma orbignyana6 sites
- Hessonia piligera6 sites
- Ibergia circularis6 sites
- Astralites sublimbatus5 sites
- Devonorhineoderma lonsdalei5 sites
- Macrochilina naticaeformis5 sites
- Naticopsis inflata5 sites
- Odontomaria semiplicata5 sites
- Plagiothyra purpurea5 sites
- Rhenomphalus rota5 sites
- Spanionema scalaroides5 sites
- Agnesia nodulosa4 sites
- Champernownia champernowni4 sites
- Murchisonia defrancei4 sites
- Murchisonia sandbergeri4 sites
- Platyloron bischoffii4 sites
- Straparollus planus4 sites
- Villmaria subclathrata4 sites
- Villmaria ventricosa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Philoxene laevis, 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
11 references- Gastropod succession across the Early–Middle Frasnian transition in the Holy Cross Mountains, southern Poland8
- Mitteldevonische (Givetische) Gastropoden (Mollusca) aus der Lahnmulde (suedliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)8
- Frasnian gastropod synecology and bio-events in the Dyminy reef complex of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland3
- A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part IV. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh2
- A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part III. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh2
- Gastropoden aus dem Mittel-Eifelium der Sötenicher Mulde (Eifel)1
- Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]1
- Novyye dannyye po stratigrafii siluriyskikh i devonskikh otlozheniy yugo-vostochnogo okonchaniya Pay-Khoya [New data on the stratigraphy of the Silurian and Devonian deposits of the southeastern end of the Pay-Khoy]1
- Die devonischen Riffe im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge [The Devonian reefs of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge]1
- On the fossil faunas from Per Schei’s Series D from Ellesmere Land with exception of brachiopods, corals and cephalopods1
- Die Goniatiten-Kalke von Adorf in Waldeck1
Each of the 29 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
Media content1

Picture of Philoxene laevis
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No 3D scan of Philoxene laevis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itStraparollus (Philoxene) through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d’Archiac and de Verneuil 1842)