Bruclarkia gravida

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BruclarkiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 20.45 Mya.
15 occurrences of Bruclarkia gravida on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
15 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
4 formations
- Pleito Formation · San Lorenzo Group9
- San Emigdio Formation · San Lorenzo Group3
- Jewett Formation1
- Eugene Formation1
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The named rock units Bruclarkia gravida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bruclarkia gravida and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Bruclarkia gravida and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Natica recluziana10 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi9 sites
- Mactromeris ramonensis8 sites
- Crenomytilus mathewsoni6 sites
- Amiantis mathewsoni5 sites
- Antigona (Ventricola) undosa5 sites
- Yoldia (Portlandia) cooperii5 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) shumardi4 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata4 sites
- Macrocallista pittsburgensis4 sites
- Panopea abrupta4 sites
- Agasoma acuminatum3 sites
- Ancilla fishii3 sites
- Bullia (Buccinanops) clarki3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Molopophorus dalli3 sites
- Siphonalia (Kelletia) merriami3 sites
- Vertipecten kernensis3 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Crepidula praerupta2 sites
- Ficus modesta2 sites
- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hecoxi2 sites
- Hemifusus lincolnensis2 sites
- Macoma nasuta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Bruclarkia gravida, 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
4 references- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California12
- The Geology and Mineral Resources of Lane County, Oregon1
- New fossil corals from the Pacific coast1
- The Neocene deposits of Kern River, California, and the Temblor Basin1
Each of the 15 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
Media content1

Picture of Bruclarkia gravida
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Bruclarkia gravida was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itBruclarkia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1866)