Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata

Astarte undulata (Say, 1824), a relative of Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata — not Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata itself

Not Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata. This is Astarte undulata (Say, 1824), a relative.

Cossmann, Maurice · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Astarte (Ashtarotha)PBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

13 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

3 formations

Yorktown — 36.44°N, 77.10°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 35.54°N, 77.67°WYorktown — 35.38°N, 77.99°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.51°N, 77.21°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°W

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The named rock units Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata 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 (Ashtarotha) undulata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata, 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

Each of the 13 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 Astarte undulata (Say, 1824)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Cossmann, Maurice
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata 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.

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What may have been alongside itAstarte (Ashtarotha) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1824)