Where: Queensland, Australia (22.1° S, 148.2° E: paleocoordinates 58.4° S, 146.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Back Creek Group, Wordian (268.0 - 265.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

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 83216: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.08.2008

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