Astarte meeki
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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 2.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.
34 occurrences of Astarte meeki on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
34 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Astarte meeki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Astarte meeki and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Astarte meeki and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa16 sites
- Camptonectes12 sites
- Liostrea strigilecula12 sites
- Trigonia12 sites
- Pinna11 sites
- Pronoella11 sites
- Gastropoda9 sites
- Grammatodon9 sites
- Crinoidea7 sites
- Modiolus6 sites
- Trigonia montanaensis6 sites
- Camptonectes stygius5 sites
- Gryphaea planoconvexa fraterna5 sites
- Pholadomya5 sites
- Thracia weedi5 sites
- Corbula4 sites
- Plicatula4 sites
- Protocardia4 sites
- Vaugonia4 sites
- Anatina (Cercomya) punctata3 sites
- Gervillaria montanaensis3 sites
- Goniomya3 sites
- Gryphaea planoconvexa3 sites
- Mactromya3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Astarte meeki, 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- Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in the Western Interior of the United States21
- Marine Jurassic Pelecypods From Central and Southern Utah4
- Interpretations of the Marine Jurassic Fossil Record at Lower Slide Lake, Teton County, Wyoming4
- Jurassic Bivalves from Wyoming and South Dakota: A study of feeding relationsips2
- Jurassic (Bathonian or Early Callovian) Ammonites from Alaska and Montana2
- Bivalvia of the polish middle jurassic and remarks on their paleoecology1
Each of the 34 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 meeki was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 meeki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astarte meeki 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 Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stanton 1899