Mentzelia balatonica
No picture of Mentzelia balatonica 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 Mentzelia balatonica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MentzeliaPBDB
- 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 most 970 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 244.4 Mya and 243.43 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mentzelia balatonica 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
2 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Mentzelia balatonica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mentzelia balatonica and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Mentzelia balatonica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Angustothyris angustaeformis2 sites
- Caucasorhynchia altaplecta2 sites
- Mentzelia mentzeli2 sites
- Nudirostralina trinodosi2 sites
- Trigonirhynchella attilina2 sites
- Coenothyris vulgaris1 site
- Costispiriferina manca1 site
- Decurtella decurtata1 site
- Koeveskallina koeveskalyensis1 site
- Rhynchonella pretiosa1 site
- Schwagerispira mojsisovicsi1 site
- Schwagerispira schwageri1 site
- Silesiathyris angusta1 site
- Tetractinella trigonella1 site
- Volirhynchia projectifrons1 site
- Volirhynchia vivida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mentzelia balatonica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referencesEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mentzelia balatonica 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 Mentzelia balatonica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mentzelia balatonica 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 itMentzelia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bittner 1890)