Astarte (Astarte) Sowerby 1816 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae

Parent taxon: Astarte according to O. S. Adegoke 1977

See also Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983 and Hendy 2007

Sister taxa: Astarte (Ashtarotha), Astarte (Bythiamena), Astarte (Carinastarte), Astarte (Digitariopsis), Astarte (Eriphylopsis), Astarte (Grotriania), Astarte (Isocrassina), Astarte (Leckhamptonia), Astarte (Neocrassina), Astarte (Trautscholdia), Astarte (Tridonta), Astarte adkinsi, Astarte altissima, Astarte amygdaloides, Astarte andicola, Astarte appressa, Astarte arctica, Astarte awensis, Astarte bayi, Astarte biplicata, Astarte blanowicensis, Astarte borealis, Astarte bronni, Astarte brumpti, Astarte calvertensis, Astarte castanea, Astarte castrana, Astarte claytonrayi, Astarte cobhamensis, Astarte compacta, Astarte compressa, Astarte concentrica, Astarte consobrina, Astarte corrugata, Astarte coxi, Astarte crebricostata, Astarte crebrilirata, Astarte crenata, Astarte cuneiformis, Astarte dancalensis, Astarte digitaria, Astarte distans, Astarte durangensis, Astarte earllergyi, Astarte elliptica, Astarte excurrens, Astarte gracilis, Astarte guthriensis, Astarte hartzi, Astarte heriensis, Astarte huralensis, Astarte ignekensis, Astarte incerta, Astarte incrassata, Astarte iwayai, Astarte jugosa, Astarte longirostris, Astarte marylandica, Astarte meeki, Astarte menthifontis, Astarte minima, Astarte minor, Astarte minutissima, Astarte monroensis, Astarte montagui, Astarte mundorffi, Astarte mutabilis, Astarte neuseana, Astarte nigeriensis, Astarte obovata, Astarte obruta, Astarte onslowensis, Astarte oolitharum, Astarte parilis, Astarte parva, Astarte parvula, Astarte perplana, Astarte persipulla, Astarte pisiformis, Astarte planilamella, Astarte planissima, Astarte portana, Astarte praeobliqua, Astarte protracta, Astarte pygmaea, Astarte rappahannockensis, Astarte saemanni, Astarte scotica, Astarte scrivenori, Astarte sergipensis, Astarte similis, Astarte spitiensis, Astarte squamula, Astarte stefanini, Astarte subnana, Astarte subsimilis, Astarte subvoltzii, Astarte sulcata, Astarte symmetrica, Astarte tecticosta, Astarte tellinoides, Astarte thisphila, Astarte thomasii, Astarte thompsonii, Astarte triangularis, Astarte triangulata, Astarte triangulatoides, Astarte tuscana, Astarte undata, Astarte unglina, Astarte ventricosa, Astarte vernicosa, Astarte wandeli, Astarte wiltoni

Subtaxa: Astarte (Astarte) ewekoroensis Astarte (Astarte) galeotti Astarte (Astarte) massintonti Astarte (Astarte) radiata

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Belgium (2 collections), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Miocene of Belgium (1), Germany (48), India (1), the Netherlands (2)

• Paleocene of Nigeria (1)

• Cretaceous of China (2), Japan (16), Mozambique (1), the Russian Federation (6)

• Jurassic of Germany (2), Greenland (1), India (1), Italy (1), Japan (6), the Russian Federation (8)

Total: 101 collections including 115 occurrences

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