Road cutting below Poatina township (Permian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.8° S, 147.0° E: paleocoordinates 71.2° S, 175.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brumby Formation (Quamby Group), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

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 133745: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Eurydesmatidae
Eurydesma sp. Morris 1845 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
Pyramus laevis Sowerby 1838 clam