Soldiers' Baths, Newcastle (Permian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.9° S, 151.8° E: paleocoordinates 67.8° S, 150.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lambton Formation (Newcastle Coal Measures Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Above "Dirty Seam" which lies below the Nobbys Tuff. Metcalf et al. (2015) dated the Nobbys Tuff at 255.26 +/- 0.07 Ma and 255.02 +/- 0.03 Ma.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Switch to contractional deformation in Hunter-Bowen orogeny occurred c. 265 Ma; Sydney basin transitioned into foreland basin

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by John Mitchell in 1898-1916

Primary reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1918. Permian and Triassic insects from New South Wales, in the collection of Mr. John Mitchell. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42:720-756 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111681: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Stenoviciidae
Permoscarta mitchelli n. gen. n. sp.
Permoscarta mitchelli n. gen. n. sp. Tillyard 1918 true bug