Goodna (Eocene of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.7° S, 152.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 153.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Redbank Plains Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Overlying basalts dated at 45 Ma, so no younger than Eocene. Paleocene age is possible but Eocene is most widely accepted.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, ferruginous, brown, yellow mudstone

• A shallow, permanent lake with a floor of "mud, decayed vegetable matter and algae"
• The matrix is a dark yellowish brown clay ironstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by L. C. Ball

Primary reference: R. J. Tillyard and B. Dunstan. 1916. Mesozoic and Tertiary Insects of Queensland and New South Wales. Descriptions of the fossil Insects and stratigraphical features. Queensland Geological Survey (253)1-63 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/R. Day]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111780: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 28.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Neuroptera - Osmylidae
Euporismites balli n. gen. n. sp.
Euporismites balli n. gen. n. sp. Tillyard 1916 lance lacewing
GSQ 34a