Astarte (Bythiamena)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstartePBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
7 occurrences of Astarte (Bythiamena) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Shoal River Formation · Alum Bluff Group5
- Oak Grove Formation · Alum Bluff Group2
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The named rock units Astarte (Bythiamena) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astarte (Bythiamena) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Astarte (Bythiamena) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
318 taxa- Varicorbula disparilis7 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)6 sites
- Crassatella densus6 sites
- Crassinella6 sites
- Nuculana6 sites
- Parvilucina6 sites
- Yoldia6 sites
- Anadara5 sites
- Chlamys5 sites
- Trachycardium5 sites
- Anomia4 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma)4 sites
- Costaglycymeris waltonensis4 sites
- Cuneocorbula whitfieldi4 sites
- Dinocardium taphrium4 sites
- Diplodonta4 sites
- Neverita4 sites
- Nucula4 sites
- Semele4 sites
- Tellina (Moerella) piesa4 sites
- Acteocina3 sites
- Aligena3 sites
- Alveinus rotundus3 sites
- Anadara (Diluvarca) strebla3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Astarte (Bythiamena), 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
2 references- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida6
- Micropaleontology and stratigraphy of a deep well at Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Astarte (Bythiamena) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Astarte (Bythiamena), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astarte (Bythiamena) 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 through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.