Bivalvia - Actinodontida - Oriocrassatellidae
Synonym: Procrassatella Yakovlev 1928
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
Parent taxon: Oriocrassatellinae according to L. E. Anelli et al. 2012
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Dickins 1961, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Oriocrassatella brenensis Oriocrassatella compressa Oriocrassatella elongata Oriocrassatella intermedia Oriocrassatella lapidaria Oriocrassatella piauiensis Oriocrassatella plana Oriocrassatella rutogensis Oriocrassatella stokesi Oriocrassatella victori
Type: Oriocrassatella stokesi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Australia (14), China (2), Greenland (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (13), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (2: Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Australia (4), Brazil (1), United States (2: Arizona)
Total: 47 collections including 52 occurrences
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