Basterotia carolina
No picture of Basterotia carolina 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 Basterotia carolina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BasterotiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Basterotia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Basterotia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Basterotia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Basterotia carolina on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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 Basterotia carolina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Basterotia carolina and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Basterotia carolina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Anadara aequicostata3 sites
- Angulus agilis3 sites
- Astarte concentrica3 sites
- Caryocorbula3 sites
- Crassinella lunulata3 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata3 sites
- Diplodonta acclinis3 sites
- Glycymeris sloani3 sites
- Gouldia3 sites
- Leptopecten auroraensis3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima3 sites
- Pleuromeris decemcostata3 sites
- Pteromeris perplana3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Calliostoma philanthropum pontoni2 sites
- Carditamera arata2 sites
- Carolinapecten eboreus2 sites
- Conradostrea lawrencei2 sites
- Crassinella2 sites
- Crenella decussata2 sites
- Crepidula fornicata2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Basterotia carolina, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Basterotia carolina 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 Basterotia carolina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Basterotia carolina was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBasterotia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1900)