Astarte spitiensis
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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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 176 Mya to 137.05 Mya.
5 occurrences of Astarte spitiensis 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
5 occurrences- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassic8%
- Late Jurassic71%
- Early Cretaceous20%
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
2 formations
- Kogoshio Formation · Karakuwa Group1
- Isokusa Formation1
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The named rock units Astarte spitiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Astarte spitiensis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Astarte spitiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Belemnopsis2 sites
- Myophorella2 sites
- Tainuirhynchia tainuii2 sites
- Vaugonia (Vaugonia) kawhiana2 sites
- Arca1 site
- Camptonectes grandis1 site
- Camptonectes laminatus1 site
- Cerithinella1 site
- Entolium1 site
- Grammatodon (Grammatodon)1 site
- Kawhiarhynchia kawhiana1 site
- Kawhiarhynchia waiohipaensis1 site
- Kutchithyris hendersoni1 site
- Limatula1 site
- Myophorella orientalis1 site
- Oxytoma1 site
- Parvamussium1 site
- Pleuromya1 site
- Pleurotomaria1 site
- Terebratulina leeae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Astarte spitiensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- A systematic survey of the Mesozoic Bivalvia from Japan2
- Divisions and faunas of the Hokonui System (Triassic and Jurassic)2
- Unpublished identifications, New Zealand Geological Survey1
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 spitiensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 spitiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astarte spitiensis 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.
Keep going
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. Stoliczka 1866