Astarte obruta
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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 most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Astarte obruta 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
5 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
1 formation
- Choptank Formation · Chesapeake Group5
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The named rock units Astarte obruta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astarte obruta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Astarte obruta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens5 sites
- Dallarca4 sites
- Marvacrassatella marylandica4 sites
- Chesapecten madisonius3 sites
- Concavus concavus3 sites
- Dallarca staminea3 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum blackwelderi3 sites
- Mercenaria cuneata3 sites
- Ostrea carolinensis3 sites
- Stewartia anodonta3 sites
- Astarte thisphila2 sites
- Bicorbula idonea2 sites
- Chesacardium laqueatum2 sites
- Ecphora meganae williamsi2 sites
- Macrocallista marylandica2 sites
- Panopea americana2 sites
- Phacoides2 sites
- Turritella terebriformis2 sites
- Aglaocetus1 site
- Anomia simplex1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Cardita protracta1 site
- Cardium laqueatum laqueatum1 site
- Chesacardium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Astarte obruta, 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
2 references- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America4
- Stratigraphy, invertebrate taphonomy and depositional history of the Miocene Calvert and Choptank Formations, Atlantic Coastal Plain1
Each of the 5 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 obruta 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 obruta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astarte obruta 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 1834