Mentzelia

Searched as Mentzelia mentzeli mentzeli. The Paleobiology Database treats Mentzelia as the accepted name.

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 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 237 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243.43 Mya241.464 Mya244.9 Mya236.5 Mya

2 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

2 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

1 formation

Wetterstein — 48.50°N, 17.33°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. 1 occurrence has 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

2 references

Each 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

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.

Keep going

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)