Mentzeliopsis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinucostinaePBDB
- 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 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 188.9 Mya.
27 occurrences of Mentzeliopsis on record. 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
27 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Port Molyneux Siltstone Formation · Willsher Group3
- Waituti Siltstone Formation · Willsher Group1
- Rabbiters Hut Formation · Corbies Creek Group1
- Koessen Formation1
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The named rock units Mentzeliopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Sakawairhynchia zealandica16 sites
- Alipunctifera kaihikuana15 sites
- Fletcherina zealandica11 sites
- Athyris9 sites
- Daonella6 sites
- Spiriferina carolinae6 sites
- Punctospirella fragilis5 sites
- Maorirhynchia nuggetensis4 sites
- Aparimella apteryx3 sites
- Balantioselena3 sites
- Lima3 sites
- Spirigera kaihikuana3 sites
- Adygella himalayana2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Daonella (Arzelella) indica2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Halorella2 sites
- Lepidotrochus2 sites
- Nautilida2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
- Patella2 sites
- Permophorus2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Pleurotomaria2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Mentzeliopsis, 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
6 references- Some faunas and formations of Kaihikuan Age (Middle Triassic) in the Murihiku Supergroup14
- The Trias of New Zealand5
- Willsher Group and geology of the Triassic Kaka Point coastal section, south-east Otago, New Zealand4
- Rhaetian brachiopods of Europe2
- Triassic fossils from Corbies Creek, north Otago1
- Unpublished identifications, New Zealand Geological Survey1
Each of the 27 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 Mentzeliopsis 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 Mentzeliopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mentzeliopsis 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 itSinucostinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Trechmann 1917