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Astarte sp.

genus Astarte J. Sowerby, 1816

Invalid synonym: Tridonta sp.

• Modern species: Middle Ordovician - Present (460.9 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, order Carditida, family Astartidae

• Distribution
• Jurassic-Cretaceous: Yamaguchi
• Cretaceous: Saitama, Ehime
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Niigata
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Ishikawa
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa

• Subtaxa
• A. alaskensis
• A. borealis, Northern astarte
• A. crenata
• A. hakodatensis
• A. striata
• A. subsenecta