Where: Queensland, Australia (22.4° S, 147.9° E: paleocoordinates 57.6° S, 140.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Back Creek Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• From the Big Strophalosia zone or Clarkei bed. Both likely belong to the Pseudostrophalosia clarkei zone of Briggs (1998), which is correlated with the upper part of APP4.3 palynomorph zone (Briggs, 1998). The APP4.3 zone was constrained as mid-Wuchiapingian age by U-Pb dating in Laurie et al. (2016).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection
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 136661: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Vacunella curvata Morris 1845 clam |