Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Astarte (Digitariopsis)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 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
24 occurrences of Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
24 occurrences- Miocene4%
- Pliocene88%
- Pleistocene8%
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
- Lillo Formation11
- Red Crag Formation4
- Coralline Crag Formation4
- Kattendijk Formation2
- Tielrode Formation1
- Oosterhout Formation1
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The named rock units Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
490 taxa- Aequipecten opercularis8 sites
- Cardita senilis8 sites
- Isocrassina basteroti8 sites
- Glycymeris7 sites
- Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum7 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus7 sites
- Arctica islandica6 sites
- Astarte mutabilis6 sites
- Cardita scalaris6 sites
- Caryocorbula striata6 sites
- Gastrana laminosa6 sites
- Liomesus dalei6 sites
- Lucinoma borealis6 sites
- Palliolum tigrinum6 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) rudis6 sites
- Solen ensis6 sites
- Talochlamys pusio6 sites
- Amyclina labiosa5 sites
- Astarte gracilis5 sites
- Buccinum undatum5 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata5 sites
- Dosina cassina5 sites
- Hiatella arctica5 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) obliqua5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata, 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- The Neogene Bivalvia (Heterodonta and Anomalodesmata) and Scaphopoda from Kallo and Doel (Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium)13
- Wood, 18507
- Neogene stratigraphy of the Langenboom locality (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands)2
- Palaeoecology of some Mollusca from the Tielrode Sands (Pliocene, Belgium)1
- Wood, 18821
Each of the 24 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 (Digitariopsis) obliquata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- 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 itAstarte (Digitariopsis) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1817)