Mehesella apolloi
No picture of Mehesella apolloi 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 Mehesella apolloi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MehesellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cytheruridae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Mehesella apolloi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous59%
- Paleocene41%
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
- Loncoche Formation · Malargüe Group1
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The named rock units Mehesella apolloi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mehesella apolloi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Mehesella apolloi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Acanthocythereis abundans1 site
- Alabamina kaasschieteri1 site
- Bolivina decurrens1 site
- Bolivina incrassata1 site
- Bulimina kickapoensis1 site
- Cibicides reinholdi ten1 site
- Cibicidoides1 site
- Cibicidoides succedens1 site
- Cyamocytheridea1 site
- Cythereis excellens1 site
- Cytherella utilis1 site
- Cytheropteron inops1 site
- Discorbis1 site
- Eponides lunata1 site
- Fursenkoina1 site
- Gavelinella camachoi1 site
- Globulina gravida1 site
- Guttulina lactea1 site
- Guttulina problema1 site
- Hemicytherura ranquelensis1 site
- Henryhowella (Wichmannella) araucana1 site
- Heterohelix globulosa1 site
- Hiltermannella kochi1 site
- Mosaelebelis ? argentinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mehesella apolloi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mehesella apolloi 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 Mehesella apolloi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mehesella apolloi 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 itMehesella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bertels 1969