Mentzelia

Mentzelia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MentzeliinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 6 of 248 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 248 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 204 of 248 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 36 of 248 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 248 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence251–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 24 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 101 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 57 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 14 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 6 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 5 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 5 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 5 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 4 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 1 occurrence214–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 1 occurrence210–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–202 Mya — about 2 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences254.14 Mya205.7 Mya261 Mya200 Mya

248 occurrences of Mentzelia on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

248 occurrences

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

40 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.25°N, 106.69°EQingyan — 26.64°N, 107.54°EQingyan — 26.35°N, 106.70°EFelsõörs — 46.95°N, 17.68°EFelsõörs — 46.92°N, 17.82°EFelsõörs — 47.01°N, 17.93°EFelsõörs — 46.89°N, 17.63°EEsino — 45.91°N, 9.69°ETisovec Limestone — 20.00°N, 48.00°EDorgicse — 46.93°N, 17.78°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.00°N, 15.00°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°EWargal — 32.52°N, 72.30°EWargal — 32.43°N, 72.28°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.77°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EBolila — 31.61°N, 97.98°EBolila — 31.30°N, 98.01°EWetterstein — 47.30°N, 11.37°EWetterstein — 47.30°N, 11.34°EHanwang — 31.50°N, 104.23°EHanwang — 31.63°N, 104.40°ECalcare di Angolo — 45.00°N, 10.00°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°EChhidru — 32.47°N, 72.23°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 72.10°ERecoaro — 47.01°N, 17.93°EMarmolata — 46.43°N, 11.82°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.48°ECalcare di Dosso dei Morti — 45.00°N, 10.00°EOuamoui — 21.74°S, 165.68°EKangnan — 35.40°N, 86.70°EPrezzo Limestone — 45.82°N, 10.47°EYangliujing — 26.25°N, 105.25°EDong Giao — 21.50°N, 104.00°E

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The named rock units Mentzelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 78 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mentzelia and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Mentzelia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,385 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 197 sites for Mentzelia, 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

52 references

Each of the 248 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. 40 further references are not listed. 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 Mentzelia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Mentzelia 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 itMentzeliinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quenstedt 1871)