Astarte concentrica
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Bivalvia
- Order: Carditida
- Family: Astartidae
- Genus: Astarte
- Species: Astarte concentrica Conrad, 1834
Geological Range
Miocene to Early Pleistocene; extinct.
Paleogeographic Distribution
Florida to Virginia.
Remarks
Original description (from Conrad, 1834):
"Shell subtriangular, compressed, with numerous concentric rounded costae, crowded on the basal margin; umbones slightly flattened; apex acute, central; lunule large, concave, lanceolate; posterior margin concave; submargin acutely angular, straight; extremity obtusely rounded; cardinal teeth strongly striated; margin crenulated. Length, one inch and one-eighth; height, seven-eighths of an inch.
Locality. Yorktown, Va."
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Stratigraphic Occurrences
- Early Pleistocene
- Waccamaw Formation (SC, NC)
- Waccamaw Formation (Upper) (NC)
- Late Pliocene
- Raysor Formation (GA, SC)
- Tamiami Formation (Pinecrest Beds) (S. FL)
- Yorktown Formation (NC, VA)
- Yorktown Formation (Moore House Member) (VA)
- Middle Miocene
- Pungo River Formation (NC)
