Mennerella
No picture of Mennerella 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 Mennerella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeyrichiopsidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Mennerella 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
6 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Mennerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mennerella and its relatives
PermianWhere Mennerella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Basslerella annesophieae6 sites
- Cyathus caperata5 sites
- Microcheilinella shicheni5 sites
- Samarella meishanella5 sites
- Bairdia deweveri4 sites
- Bairdia urodeloformis4 sites
- Bairdia wushunbaoi4 sites
- Bairdiacypris fornicata4 sites
- Microcheilinella venusta4 sites
- Acratia subfusiformis3 sites
- Acratia zhongyingensis3 sites
- Bairdia broutini3 sites
- Bairdia limatusformis3 sites
- Bairdia paussi3 sites
- Bairdia pierrevalentini3 sites
- Bairdia subcontracta3 sites
- Bairdiacypris caeca3 sites
- Baschkirina ballei3 sites
- Baschkirina huzhouensis3 sites
- Cavellina rotunda3 sites
- Cyathus elliptica3 sites
- Fabalicypris parva3 sites
- Knightina hongfui3 sites
- Liuzhinia praeantalyaensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mennerella, 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
2 references- Ostracods (Crustacea) through the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China: the Meishan stratotype (Zhejiang Province)4
- The Changhsingian ostracodes from Meishan, Changxing, Zhejiang2
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Mennerella 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 Mennerella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mennerella 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 itBeyrichiopsidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.