Astarte distans
No picture of Astarte distans was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 distans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Astarte distans 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
13 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
- Kirkwood Formation12
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Astarte distans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astarte distans and its relatives
MioceneWhere Astarte distans and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
240 taxa- Turritella cumberlandia7 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta6 sites
- Chesapecten madisonius6 sites
- Glycymeris parilis6 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima6 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata5 sites
- Isognomon maxillata5 sites
- Marvacrassatella melina5 sites
- Neverita duplicatus5 sites
- Parvilucina crenulata5 sites
- Turritella aequistriata5 sites
- Chesacardium craticuloides4 sites
- Crepidula fornicata4 sites
- Ensis directus4 sites
- Lunatia hemicrypta4 sites
- Mariacolpus plebeia4 sites
- Mitrella4 sites
- Mitrella communis mediocris4 sites
- Murexiella cumberlandiana4 sites
- Pecten humphreysii woolmani4 sites
- Serpulorbis granifera4 sites
- Carditamera arata3 sites
- Corbula inaequalis3 sites
- Crassostrea virginica3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Astarte distans, 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
3 references- Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey10
- Well-boring at Brandywine Lighthouse in Delaware Bay. Part I. - Geology and Macrofossils2
- Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Astarte distans was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 distans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astarte distans 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.
Keep going
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. Conrad 1862