Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 151.7° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° S, 144.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Belmont Conglomerate Member (Croudace Bay Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Insect bed is 30 cm thick, but insects concentrated approximately 2 cm below top. From horizon 70 feet below base of Fassifern Coal, according to Knight (1950). Fassifern coal dated at 253.38 +/- 0.08 Ma and the underlying Upper Pilot A seam at 253.55 +/- 0.06 Ma by Metcalf et al. (2015).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, fine-grained, tuffaceous, gray chert

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R. Brown, R. Beattie in 2002-2005

Primary reference: O. Béthoux, R. G. Beattie, and A. Nel. 2007. Wing venation and relationships of the order Glosselytrodea (Insecta). Alcheringa 31:285-296 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111680: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2011

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