Astarte menthifontis
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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 most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Astarte menthifontis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
25 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group18
- Mint Spring Formation6
- Forest Hill Formation1
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The named rock units Astarte menthifontis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astarte menthifontis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Astarte menthifontis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
212 taxa- Ervilia9 sites
- Nucula vicksburgensis9 sites
- Pitar9 sites
- Verticordia9 sites
- Callista8 sites
- Corbula engonata8 sites
- Crenella fenestra8 sites
- Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta8 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) diversum8 sites
- Varicorbula laqueata8 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis8 sites
- Dentalium7 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) eburnea7 sites
- Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus7 sites
- Glycymeris arctata7 sites
- Pteria argentea7 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula7 sites
- Semele7 sites
- Semelina7 sites
- Sportella oblonga7 sites
- Tellina7 sites
- Donax funerata6 sites
- Glycymeris suwannensis6 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Astarte menthifontis, 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
2 references- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi15
- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi10
Each of the 25 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 content0
No picture of Astarte menthifontis 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 menthifontis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astarte menthifontis 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dockery 1982