Astarte montagui

Astarte montagui

Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
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 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 48 of 72 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 24 of 72 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 51 occurrences1.8 Mya11.7 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Astarte montagui on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

72 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

Presumpscot — 44.23°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 43.80°N, 70.19°WPresumpscot — 43.31°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 43.63°N, 70.05°WPresumpscot — 43.50°N, 70.44°WPresumpscot — 44.80°N, 68.78°WPresumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WPresumpscot — 43.91°N, 69.97°WPresumpscot — 44.13°N, 68.87°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.47°N, 21.00°WChamplain Clay — 45.75°N, 62.72°WChamplain Clay — 45.85°N, 71.18°WChamplain Clay — 43.67°N, 70.29°WChamplain Clay — 44.61°N, 67.93°WNorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°EWeybourne Crag — 52.90°N, 1.37°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°W

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The named rock units Astarte montagui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astarte montagui and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Astarte montagui and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

234 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Astarte montagui, 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

10 references

Each of the 72 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 montagui

Credit
Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Astarte montagui · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:13759

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dillwyn 1817)