Division of the bivalved mollusca described by James Dwight Dana 1847-1849 from the Permian of eastern Australia

The Permian Bivalvia collected and described by J.D. Dana (1847, 1849) from the Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia are revised and illustrated from the collections at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The morphology of some genera erected by Dana (1847) is clarified, and some of the obscure species, such as Pecten mitis, Astarte gemma, and Pholadomya glendonensis are redescribed. Statistical summaries are presented for some of the species with controversial limits, such as Pyramus myiformis Dana, Notomya securiformis M’Coy, and various species of Astartila. Newly proposed names are Polidevcia cryptica for Nucula concinna Dana, 1847 not Nucula concinna Sowerby, 1836; and Astartila runnegari for Pachydomus ovalis M’Coy, November 1847, not Pachydomus ovalis Sowerby, February 1847, the latter new name a subjective synonym of Astartila intrepida Dana