Astarte

Searched as Astarte veneris. The Paleobiology Database treats Astarte as the accepted name.

Astarte is a genus of bivalve mollusc in the Astartidae family. It was circumscribed by James Sowerby in 1816. As of 2017, WoRMS recognizes approximately 33 species in this genus.

Astarte

George Brettingham Sowerby II · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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 6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 19 of 31 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 31 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous150–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–142 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya137.05 Mya149.7 Mya132.1 Mya

31 occurrences of Astarte on record. 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

31 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

1 formation

Kap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°W

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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. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

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

4 references

Each of the 31 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
George Brettingham Sowerby II
Licence
Public Domain
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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
wrimpr
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAstartinae through timeThe world it lived on

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