Astartella

Astartella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstartidaePBDB
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 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 248.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 247 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 423 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 213 of 423 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 194 of 423 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 16 of 423 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 423 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–326 Mya — about 5 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 6 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 7 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 4 occurrences315–311 Mya — about 14 occurrences311–307 Mya — about 21 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 43 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 105 occurrences299–295 Mya — about 10 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 9 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 10 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 9 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 14 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 14 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 8 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 4 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 9 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 11 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 37 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 51 occurrences253–249 Mya — about 25 occurrences249–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences330.3 Mya248.6 Mya361 Mya245 Mya

423 occurrences of Astartella on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

423 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

106 formations

Graham — 33.02°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 33.03°N, 98.65°WGraham — 32.96°N, 98.76°WGraham — 31.50°N, 99.37°WGraham — 31.44°N, 99.34°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WLongtan — 29.83°N, 106.43°ELongtan — 26.03°N, 105.10°ELongtan — 27.77°N, 111.96°ELongtan — 26.14°N, 105.28°ELongtan — 25.58°N, 112.43°ELongtan — 24.78°N, 113.68°ELongtan — 26.50°N, 105.58°EChhidru — 32.51°N, 71.93°EChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.41°N, 72.10°EChhidru — 32.53°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.52°N, 72.11°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.02°EDouling — 27.69°N, 113.22°EDouling — 26.55°N, 112.50°EDouling — 26.23°N, 112.94°EDouling — 27.08°N, 111.32°EDouling — 25.80°N, 113.00°EDouling — 27.88°N, 112.61°EDouling — 27.75°N, 111.77°EDouling — 23.23°N, 113.29°EPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPark City — 42.57°N, 108.41°WPark City — 40.78°N, 111.83°WPark City — 42.11°N, 110.82°WPark City — 42.95°N, 109.00°WPark City — 42.96°N, 111.82°WGlenshaw — 40.95°N, 78.99°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.37°N, 80.63°WGlenshaw — 40.16°N, 78.59°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WGlenshaw — 40.52°N, 79.95°WLekvorkuta — 67.05°N, 59.95°ELekvorkuta — 66.60°N, 60.55°ELekvorkuta — 66.01°N, 57.54°ELekvorkuta — 65.75°N, 59.50°EDaye — 25.58°N, 106.76°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.76°EWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.38°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WKaibab — 34.43°N, 110.59°WKaibab — 35.94°N, 111.61°WToyoma — 38.67°N, 141.30°EToyoma — 38.61°N, 141.29°EToyoma — 38.78°N, 141.35°ECherokee Shale — 37.21°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.65°N, 94.71°WCherokee Shale — 37.24°N, 94.80°WCherokee Shale — 37.13°N, 95.10°WCherokee Shale — 37.00°N, 95.17°WAmsden — 41.81°N, 107.32°WAmsden — 43.18°N, 109.20°WAmsden — 43.89°N, 110.09°WAmsden — 43.51°N, 107.46°WAmsden — 44.17°N, 106.85°WAmsden — 44.45°N, 106.91°WCabaniss — 37.49°N, 94.57°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WMunugudzhak — 63.85°N, 159.83°EMunugudzhak — 63.84°N, 159.89°EMunugudzhak — 65.25°N, 155.75°EFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WFord — 55.05°N, 1.44°WFord — 54.88°N, 1.45°WBaird — 40.79°N, 122.30°WBaird — 40.94°N, 122.27°WPequop — 40.23°N, 115.16°WPequop — 39.04°N, 114.90°WEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°EConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WConemaugh — 39.79°N, 81.87°WLoray — 39.21°N, 114.98°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WHeshan — 23.82°N, 108.87°ELoping — 27.40°N, 114.60°ELoping — 28.28°N, 115.35°ELoping — 28.20°N, 115.17°E

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The named rock units Astartella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astartella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Astartella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,915 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 346 sites for Astartella, and this reads 240 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

105 references

Each of the 423 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. 93 further references are not listed. 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 Astartella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Astartella 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 itAstartidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1858