Rokeby Station, Eurydesma beds (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (28.4° S, 152.1° E: paleocoordinates 57.5° S, 166.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Eurydesma beds, Stanthorpe Road Block

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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 134045: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Vacunellinae indet. Astafieva-Urbajtis 1973 clam
Myonia or Vacunella? sp.
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
Pyramus ? concentricus Etheridge 1872 clam
 Pectinida - Eurydesmatidae
Eurydesma hobartense konincki Johnston 1887 scallop