Mehliella

Searched as Walteria. The Paleobiology Database treats Mehliella as the accepted name.

No picture of Mehliella 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 Mehliella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrocodyliaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 193 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 52 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences269–261 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences261–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–232 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259.857 Mya66 Mya269 Mya48 Mya

4 occurrences of Mehliella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

4 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

2 formations

Muddy Sandstone — 39.76°N, 105.22°WTutuiri Greensand — 43.75°S, 176.68°W

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The named rock units Mehliella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mehliella and its relatives

Permian

Where Mehliella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mehliella, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No picture of Mehliella 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 Mehliella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCrocodylia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mehl 1931