Bransonia projecta Waterhouse 1987 (mollusk)

Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Bransoniidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 198(4-6):129-233

Belongs to Bransonia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Waterhouse 1987

Sister taxa: Bransonia australe, Bransonia robustum, Bransonia truncata, Bransonia wilsoni

Type specimen: UQF 74423, a shell. Its type locality is UQ L4598, quarry along highway north of Theodore, Bowen Basin, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal siliciclastic in the Flat Top Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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