Gympie Gasworks (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (26.2° S, 152.7° E: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 163.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Not listed, but based on nearby localities probably Rammutt Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Survey of Queensland

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 107317: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
"Sanguinolites concentricus n. sp." = Pyramus concentricus
"Sanguinolites concentricus n. sp." = Pyramus concentricus Etheridge 1872 clam
Neotype designated by Runnegar (1967)