Astarte

Searched as Astarte elegans. The Paleobiology Database treats Astarte as the accepted name.

Astarte is a genus of bivalve mollusc in the Astartidae family. It was circumscribed by James Sowerby in 1816. As of 2017, WoRMS recognizes approximately 33 species in this genus.

Astarte

George Brettingham Sowerby II · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
AstartinaePBDB
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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 34 of 35 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 35 occurrencesLate Jurassic175–174 Mya — about 4 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 9 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 9 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 9 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170.9 Mya149.2 Mya175.3 Mya144.5 Mya

35 occurrences of Astarte on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

35 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

7 formations

Opalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°EOpalinuston — 47.37°N, 7.78°EOpalinuston — 47.68°N, 8.52°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°EUpper Trigonia Grit — 51.80°N, 1.88°WGryphite Grits — 51.80°N, 1.88°WDogger — 54.41°N, 0.87°WAchdorf — 48.18°N, 8.76°EOolithe ferrugineuse de Bayeux — 49.03°N, 0.42°W

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The named rock units Astarte 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 and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Astarte and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,024 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,073 sites for Astarte, and this reads 240 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

7 references

Each of the 35 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 content2

Picture of Astarte

Credit
George Brettingham Sowerby II
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
wrimpr
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAstartinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1816