Where: Queensland, Australia (21.5° S, 148.5° E: paleocoordinates 55.5° S, 154.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tiverton Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: B. Runnegar. 1965. The bivalves Megadesmus Sowerby and Astartila Dana from the Permian of eastern Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 12(2):227-252 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85038: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.11.2008

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