Astarte (Ashtarotha)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstartePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
33 occurrences of Astarte (Ashtarotha) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
33 occurrences- Miocene48%
- Pliocene48%
- Pleistocene3%
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
8 formations
- Shoal River Formation · Alum Bluff Group10
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group9
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group5
- Kirkwood Formation3
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group2
- Duplin Formation1
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The named rock units Astarte (Ashtarotha) 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.
Astarte (Ashtarotha) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Astarte (Ashtarotha) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
479 taxa- Nuculana12 sites
- Crassinella11 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)10 sites
- Parvilucina9 sites
- Anadara8 sites
- Chlamys8 sites
- Crassatella densus8 sites
- Nucula8 sites
- Varicorbula disparilis8 sites
- Anomia7 sites
- Astarte concentrica7 sites
- Tellina (Moerella) piesa7 sites
- Yoldia7 sites
- Chesapecten madisonius6 sites
- Costaglycymeris waltonensis6 sites
- Crassinella lunulata6 sites
- Mulinia congesta6 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita)6 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa6 sites
- Strioterebrum6 sites
- Strombina6 sites
- Tectonatica6 sites
- Acteocina5 sites
- Cancellaria5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Astarte (Ashtarotha), 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
12 references- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida9
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions6
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda5
- Well-boring at Brandywine Lighthouse in Delaware Bay. Part I. - Geology and Macrofossils3
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America2
- Notes on the fauna of the Chipola Formation - XXIV. The genus Astarte (Mollusca: Bivalvia)2
- Paleontology of the Upper Eocene to Quaternary Post Impact Section in the USGS-NASA Langley Core, Hampton Virginia1
- Miocene Molluscan biosratigraphy of the Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India1
- The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia1
- Micropaleontology and stratigraphy of a deep well at Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
- Miocene pelecypods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida1
Each of the 33 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
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No picture of Astarte (Ashtarotha) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Astarte (Ashtarotha), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astarte (Ashtarotha) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itAstarte through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1903)