Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.1° S, 150.8° E: paleocoordinates 64.8° S, 134.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashfield Shales Formation (Wianamatta Group), Pelsonian to Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Late Anisian. 300-400 feet above top of Hawkesbury Sandstone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by John Mitchell in 1892

• At least one specimen collected in 1892, others collected at same time or in 1890s or early 1900s.

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 111683: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2011

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