Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae

Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1897. Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:3-48

Belongs to Astarte according to E. Dartevelle and S. Freneix 1957

See also von Koenen 1897

Sister taxa: Astarte (Ashtarotha), Astarte (Astarte), Astarte (Bythiamena), Astarte (Carinastarte), Astarte (Digitariopsis), Astarte (Eriphylopsis), Astarte (Grotriania), Astarte (Isocrassina), Astarte (Leckhamptonia), Astarte (Neocrassina), Astarte (Trautscholdia), Astarte (Tridonta), Astarte acerba, 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 delicata, 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 regularis, 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 tellinoides, Astarte thisphila, Astarte thomasii, Astarte thompsonii, Astarte triangularis, Astarte triangulata, Astarte triangulatoides, Astarte tuscana, Astarte undata, Astarte unglina, Astarte venatorum, Astarte ventricosa, Astarte vernicosa, Astarte wandeli, Astarte wiltoni, Astarte xintianmengensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone/sandstone in the Mungo River Formation of Cameroon

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki

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