Astarte awensis
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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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
9 occurrences of Astarte awensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
9 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Astarte awensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Astarte awensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Astarte awensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Costagyra olisiponensis4 sites
- Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi4 sites
- Ampullospira bulbiformis3 sites
- Arctica globosa3 sites
- Granocardium productum3 sites
- Mecaster3 sites
- Micropedina olisiponensis3 sites
- Pholadomya pedernalis3 sites
- Pseudotissotia nigeriensis3 sites
- Anofia aro2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Glossus aquilinus2 sites
- Lavignon nigeriense2 sites
- Plicatula (Plicatula) fourneli2 sites
- Plicatula ibo2 sites
- Pseudocucullaea lens2 sites
- Thomasites gongilensis2 sites
- Trigonarca angolensis2 sites
- Vascoceras bulbosum2 sites
- Vascoceras globosum2 sites
- Veniella undata2 sites
- Agelasina plenodonta1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) andersoni1 site
- Astarte nigeriensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Astarte awensis, 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
5 references- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca from north-eastern Nigeria3
- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca (Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda) from Nigeria3
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- Biogeography of the Saharan Cretaceous and Paleocene epicontinental transgressions1
- The palaeontology of the Upper Cretaceous deposits of northern Nigeria1
Each of the 9 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 Astarte awensis 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 Astarte awensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astarte awensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAstarte through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woods 1911