Astarte

Searched as Astarte (Astarte) subsenecta. The Paleobiology Database treats Astarte as the accepted name.

Astarte

Gunnar Ries Amphibol · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
AstartinaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125.77 Mya106.3 Mya144 Mya99.6 Mya

11 occurrences of Astarte on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

11 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

8 formations

Choshi — 35.72°N, 140.82°EIshido — 36.25°N, 138.67°EIshido — 36.07°N, 138.87°ETosakamo — 33.50°N, 133.28°EHanoura — 33.83°N, 134.50°EHaidateyama — 33.17°N, 131.50°EYatsushiro — 32.50°N, 130.58°EQihulin — 45.83°N, 132.33°ESukubo — 32.85°N, 131.62°E

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The named rock units Astarte has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Astarte and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Astarte and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,024 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,073 sites for Astarte, and this reads 240 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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 content3

Picture of Astarte

Credit
Gunnar Ries Amphibol
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Astarte crenata · USNM:IZ:USNM 765264

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
wrimpr
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAstartinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1816