Brachysphingus clarki
No picture of Brachysphingus clarki was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Brachysphingus clarki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachysphingusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
5 occurrences of Brachysphingus clarki on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Brachysphingus clarki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Brachysphingus clarki and its relatives
EoceneWhere Brachysphingus clarki and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Acutostrea idriaensis3 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) hornii3 sites
- Dentalium stramineum3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum3 sites
- Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus3 sites
- Surcula washingtoniana3 sites
- Turritella uvasana3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei2 sites
- Bursa2 sites
- Calyptraea2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Conus hornii2 sites
- Cyclinella elevata2 sites
- Ficus mamillata2 sites
- Galeodea tuberculiformis2 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii2 sites
- Modiolus ornatus2 sites
- Priscoficus cowlitzensis2 sites
- Rimella elongata2 sites
- Semele diaboli2 sites
- Turris monolifera2 sites
- Unio2 sites
- Venericor planicosta2 sites
- Volema (Hemifusus)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Brachysphingus clarki, 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
2 references- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington4
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Brachysphingus clarki was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Brachysphingus clarki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachysphingus clarki was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBrachysphingus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weaver 1912