BMR WB266, Curbur Homestead (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (26.4° S, 115.4° E: paleocoordinates 61.1° S, 99.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Callytharra Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. M. Dickins. 1963. Permian pelecypods and gastropods from western Australia. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics 63:1-203 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85982: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Mourlonia (Mourlonia) "sp. nov." de Koninck 1883 snail
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia prichardi Dickins 1963 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus koneckii Dickins 1963 mussel
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon bimodoliratus Dickins 1963 clam
 Pectinida - Limidae
? Plagiostoma "sp. nov." Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Girtypecten ovalis Dickins 1963 scallop
 Pectinida - Limipectinidae
? Acanthopecten sp. Girty 1903 scallop
 Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae
Atomodesma mytiloides Beyrich 1865 clam