Bivalvia - Actinodontida - Oriocrassatellidae
Synonym: Oriocrassatella queenslandica Dickins 1961
Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1932. New fossils from the Agglomerate Slate of Kashmir. Palaeontogical Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series 20(1):1-79
Belongs to Oriocrassatella according to G. Termier et al. 1974
See also Dickins 1961
Sister taxa: Oriocrassatella brenensis, Oriocrassatella compressa, Oriocrassatella elongata, Oriocrassatella intermedia, Oriocrassatella piauiensis, Oriocrassatella plana, Oriocrassatella rutogensis, Oriocrassatella stokesi, Oriocrassatella victori
Type specimens:
- Oriocrassatella lapidaria: Its type locality is Bren Spur Middlemiss Locality 1, which is in a Sakmarian coastal shale in the Agglomeratic Slate Formation of India
- Oriocrassatella queenslandica: UQF 26795. Its type locality is Orion Creek KOE6, which is in an Artinskian offshore siliciclastic in the Cattle Creek Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Australia (3), India (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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