Astarte (Astarte) radiata

Astarte (Astarte) radiata

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Astarte (Astarte)PBDB
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 most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiocene — about 51 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 51 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

51 occurrences of Astarte (Astarte) radiata 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

51 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

3 formations

Breda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.43°E

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The named rock units Astarte (Astarte) radiata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astarte (Astarte) radiata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Astarte (Astarte) radiata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

456 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Astarte (Astarte) radiata, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

4 references

Each of the 51 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 content2

Picture of Astarte (Astarte) radiata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Astarte crenata · USNM:IZ:USNM 765264

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nyst and Westendorp 1839)