Astartila
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegadesmidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
58 occurrences of Astartila on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
58 occurrences- Permian100%
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
20 formations
- Gerringong Formation9
- Ferntree Formation8
- Wandrawandian Formation5
- Agglomeratic Slate Formation4
- Talchir Formation3
- Flat Top Formation3
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The named rock units Astartila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Astartila and its relatives
PermianWhere Astartila and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
319 taxa- Vacunella curvata18 sites
- Stenopora crinita11 sites
- Terrakea brachythaera10 sites
- Megadesmus (Cleobis) grandis9 sites
- Merismopteria macroptera9 sites
- Stutchburia compressa8 sites
- Tomiopsis (Johndearia) magna8 sites
- Myonia (Myomedia) carinata7 sites
- Etheripecten leniusculus5 sites
- Myonia5 sites
- Pseudostrophalosia clarkei5 sites
- Warthia micromphala5 sites
- Fenestella4 sites
- Ingelarella mantuanensis4 sites
- Ingelarella undulosa4 sites
- Pleurikodonta elegans4 sites
- Pleurocinctosa trifilata4 sites
- Pyramus myiformis4 sites
- Sulciplica transversa4 sites
- Aviculopecten3 sites
- Cyrtella nagmargensis3 sites
- Dielasma3 sites
- Etheripecten tenuicollis3 sites
- Eurydesma cordatum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Astartila, 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
21 references- Faunas from the Ferntree Group of south-eastern Tasmania9
- Descriptions of fossil shells of the collections of the exploring expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes, USN, obtained in Australia, from the lower layers of the coal formation in Illawarra, and from a deposit probably of nearly the same age at Harper's Hill, Valley of the Hunter6
- The bivalves Megadesmus Sowerby and Astartila Dana from the Permian of eastern Australia5
- Palaeontology of the lower Shoalhaven River5
- New fossils from the Agglomerate Slate of Kashmir4
- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia3
- Permian pelecypods and gastropods from western Australia3
- Lower Permian pelecypods and gastropods from the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia3
- Permian pelecypods from the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia3
- Some fossils from the Eurydesma and Conularia beds (Punjabian) of the Salt Range3
- The Permian bivalve genera Myonia, Megadesmus, Vacunella and their allies, and their occurrences in New Zealand2
- The geology of the Yarrol Region. Part 1. Biostratigraphy2
Each of the 58 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. 9 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 content0
No picture of Astartila 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 Astartila, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astartila 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 itMegadesmidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1847