Actinostreon rastellaris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinostreonPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 149.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Actinostreon rastellaris on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Actinostreon rastellaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Actinostreon rastellaris and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Actinostreon rastellaris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Gryphaea costellata2 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus2 sites
- Pholadomya lirata2 sites
- Terebratula bisuffarcinata2 sites
- Aequipecten1 site
- Arcomytilus1 site
- Daghanirhynchia daghaniensis1 site
- Daghanirhynchia subversabilis1 site
- Dorsoplicathyris subinsignis1 site
- Eligmus rollandi1 site
- Heliocoenia etalloni1 site
- Kutchithyris ferrandii1 site
- Latomeandra mayeri1 site
- Lopha costata1 site
- Mactromya aequalis1 site
- Musculus somaliensis1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Pholadomya1 site
- Purpuroidea1 site
- Rhynchonella1 site
- Rugalindrites1 site
- Septaliphoria pectunculoides1 site
- Somalirhynchia africana1 site
- Somalirhynchia stefaninii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Actinostreon rastellaris, 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
5 references- Fossili Giurassici dell'Harar (Africa Orientale): Brachiopodi, Lamellibranchi e Gasteropodi [Jurassic fossils from Harar (Eastern Africa): brachiopods, lamellibranchs and gastropods]2
- Les Terebratulidés de l'Oxfordien du Jura et de la bordure sud du Bassin de Paris1
- Molluschi del Giuralias della Somalia, Gasteropodi e Lamellibranchi [Jurassic molluscs from Somalia, gastropods and bivalves]1
- Jurassic Fossils from Jubaland, East Africa, Collected by V. G. Glenday, And the Jurassic Geology of Somaliland1
- Beiträge zur Geologie des Somalilandes, 2. Teil. Oberer Jura [Contributions to the geology of Somaliland, Part 2. Upper Jurassic]1
Each of the 6 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 Actinostreon rastellaris 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 Actinostreon rastellaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinostreon rastellaris 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 itActinostreon through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Munster 1833)