 Their diet consisted mostly of live fish.They are of the order Baphetidae which are distinguished by their keyhole shaped orbits, while "Loxomma" themselves are distinguished by the unique texture on their skulls, said to be honeycomb-like.The genus "Loxomma" was discovered and named by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1862 via a near perfect cranium, a vertebra and a rib in the Lanarkshire coal-field of Scotland.