Astartella compacta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstartellaPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
18 occurrences of Astartella compacta 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
18 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
5 formations
- Graham Formation · Cisco Group14
- Flechado Formation1
- Mattoon Formation1
- Cabaniss Formation · Cherokee Group1
- Saginaw Formation1
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The named rock units Astartella compacta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astartella compacta and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Astartella compacta and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
280 taxa- Crinoidea16 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa15 sites
- Lissochonetes geinitzianus15 sites
- Brachiopoda indet.14 sites
- Bryozoa indet.14 sites
- Echinoidea14 sites
- Gastropoda14 sites
- Holothuroidea14 sites
- Nautiloidea indet.14 sites
- Ostracoda14 sites
- Pisces indet.14 sites
- Stelleroidea indet.14 sites
- Scaphopoda13 sites
- Bivalvia12 sites
- Nuculavus12 sites
- Phestia inflata12 sites
- Productidina12 sites
- Foraminifera indet.11 sites
- Hustedia mormoni11 sites
- Plantae indet.11 sites
- Porifera10 sites
- Serpulidae10 sites
- Astartella vera8 sites
- Bactritidae8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Astartella compacta, 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- Taxonomy and Paleoecology of the Bivalves from the Finis Shale (Pennsylvanian) of Texas14
- Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and paleontology of the Taos area, north-central New Mexico1
- Paleoecological notes on the fauna of the Shumway Limestone (Mattoon Formation, Upper Pennsylvanian) of Illinois1
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri1
- Pennsylvanian Stratigraphy near Grand Ledge, Michigan1
Each of the 18 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 content0
No picture of Astartella compacta 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 Astartella compacta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astartella compacta 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 itAstartella through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1915