Parastarte

Parastarte is a genus of molluscs in the family Veneridae.

No picture of Parastarte 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 Parastarte, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GemminaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 24 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Parastarte on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

24 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

11 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WTamiami — 26.10°N, 80.84°WFat'ha — 36.43°N, 44.35°E

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The named rock units Parastarte 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.

Parastarte and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Parastarte and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,350 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Parastarte, 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

12 references

Each of the 24 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 content1

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
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Specimen
Parastarte triquetra · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:185769

No picture of Parastarte 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 Parastarte, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGemmina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1862