Bivalvia - Actinodontida - Oriocrassatellidae
Full reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1907. Official contributions to the palaeontology of South Australia, No. 18 - Carboniferous fossils from Fossil Head, Treachery Bay, Victoria River estuary. South Australian Parliamentary Paper 55(Suppl):6-11
Belongs to Oriocrassatella according to N. W. Archbold et al. 1996
See also Dickins 1956 and Etheridge 1907
Sister taxa: Oriocrassatella brenensis, Oriocrassatella compressa, Oriocrassatella elongata, Oriocrassatella intermedia, Oriocrassatella lapidaria, Oriocrassatella piauiensis, Oriocrassatella plana, Oriocrassatella rutogensis, Oriocrassatella victori
Type specimen: NMV P30707, a valve (right valve). Its type locality is Fossil Head, Port Keats Mission, Bonaparte Gulf, which is in a Roadian marine siliciclastic in the Lower Marine Beds Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (6 collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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