Astarte minima

Astarte minima

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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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 9 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168.6 Mya149.2 Mya175.3 Mya142.5 Mya

12 occurrences of Astarte minima on record, most of them in the Late 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

12 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

4 formations

Neuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°ELincolnshire Limestone — 53.50°N, 0.33°WDaua Limestone — 3.93°N, 41.21°EDaua Limestone — 3.45°N, 40.17°ERennertshofen — 48.73°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Astarte minima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astarte minima and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Astarte minima and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Astarte minima, 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

Each of the 12 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 minima

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Astarte minima 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.

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What may have been alongside itAstarte through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Ossat 1900