Harper's Hill, Hunter Valley (AM coll) (Permian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.7° S, 151.5° E: paleocoordinates 61.8° S, 169.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, volcaniclastic, gray, green sandstone

• A volcanic grit of greenish grey colour, consisting principally of feldspar, and being in some parts slightly, in other parts highly calcareous when the rock assumes a compact aspect

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Australian Museum, Sydney

Primary reference: B. Runnegar. 1967. Desmodont bivalves from the Permian of eastern Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 96:1-108 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133742: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Pachymyonia etheridgei
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
Pyramus laevis
Pyramus laevis Sowerby 1838 clam