Orion Creek KOE6 (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (24.0° S, 148.5° E: paleocoordinates 57.9° S, 155.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cattle Creek Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. M. Dickins. 1961. Permian pelecypods newly recorded from eastern Australia. Palaeontology 4(1):119-130 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107316: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Vacunella "sp. nov. A" Waterhouse 1965 clam
 Actinodontida - Oriocrassatellidae
"Oriocrassatella queenslandica n. sp." = Oriocrassatella lapidaria
"Oriocrassatella queenslandica n. sp." = Oriocrassatella lapidaria Reed 1932 clam
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Pseudomyalina sp. Dickins 1956 clam