Bruclarkia thor

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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 most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Bruclarkia thor 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
These 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bruclarkia thor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bruclarkia thor and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Bruclarkia thor and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis3 sites
- Cochlodesma bainbridgensis3 sites
- Crepidula ungana3 sites
- Cyclocardia hannai3 sites
- Epitonium (Cirsotrema) saundersi3 sites
- Ficus modesta3 sites
- Gyrineum goodspeedi3 sites
- Liracassis rex3 sites
- Macoma lorenzoensis arnoldi3 sites
- Macrocallista cathcartensis3 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) washingtonensis3 sites
- Pandora (Pandorella) vanwinkleae3 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) blakeleyensis3 sites
- Portlandia chehalisensis3 sites
- Priscofusus stewarti3 sites
- Psephaea (Miopleiona) weaveri3 sites
- Pseudoperissolax trophonoides3 sites
- Scaphander washingtonensis gordoni3 sites
- Solariella kincaidi3 sites
- Solemya (Acharax) dalli3 sites
- Thracia schencki3 sites
- Turricula mclellani3 sites
- Turritella diversilineata blakeleyensis3 sites
- Balanophyllia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bruclarkia thor, 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- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington2
- Paleontology of the Marine Tertiary formations of Oregon and Washington2
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Bruclarkia thor
- 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 thor 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 itBruclarkia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tegland 1933