Astarte tuscana
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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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
7 occurrences of Astarte tuscana 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
7 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
3 formations
- Chico Formation · Asuncion Group3
- Ladd Formation2
- Chatsworth Formation1
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The named rock units Astarte tuscana 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 tuscana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Astarte tuscana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Biplica obliqua6 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii6 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana5 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa4 sites
- Baculites chicoensis4 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus4 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi3 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii3 sites
- Perissitys brevirostris3 sites
- Turritella chicoensis3 sites
- Acirsa nexilia2 sites
- Ampullina oviformis2 sites
- Anchura falciformis2 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians2 sites
- Canadoceras newberryanum2 sites
- Carota dilleri2 sites
- Caryocorbula traskii2 sites
- Clisocolus dubius2 sites
- Eripachya ponderosa2 sites
- Eriphyla veatchii2 sites
- Gyrodes expansa2 sites
- Haydenia impressa2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Nanonavis breweriana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Astarte tuscana, 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
6 references- The Rocks of the Sierra Nevada2
- Type And Referred Specimens of Fossil Invertebrata in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Supplement 3: Mollusca Formerly Conserved at the University of California, Los Angeles1
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California1
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
- Description of the Cretaceous fossils1
Each of the 7 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 tuscana 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 tuscana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astarte tuscana 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)