Astartella vera

Astartella vera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstartellaPBDB
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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 29 of 30 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 30 occurrencesPermian320–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 5 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 7 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 8 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 8 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307.4 Mya266.9 Mya320 Mya263 Mya

30 occurrences of Astartella vera on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

30 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

7 formations

Graham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.37°N, 80.63°WGlenshaw — 40.16°N, 78.59°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WGlenshaw — 40.52°N, 79.95°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WConemaugh — 39.79°N, 81.87°WFrancis — 34.76°N, 96.68°WSama — 43.30°N, 5.68°WHuanggangliang — 42.93°N, 117.65°EHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°W

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

Astartella vera and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Astartella vera and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

307 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Astartella vera, 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

9 references

Each of the 30 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 content1

Picture of Astartella vera

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itAstartella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1858