Horseshoe Bend Road, Gympie (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)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Survey of Queensland

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 133793: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
Pyramus concentricus Etheridge 1872 clam