Sideritic lens near main Southern Railway Line (Triassic to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.2° S, 150.6° E: paleocoordinates 63.1° S, 132.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Found in basal 30 m of the Ashfield Shale

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified siderite and shale

• " All of these specimens appear to have accumulated in small drying puddles prior to fossilization."
• "Specimen found in a large sideritic lens within a shale body...Lenses tend to be discoidal, flattened, up to 2 m in diameter, and are found at various levels throughout the basal 30 m of the Ashfield Shale."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Steve Avery

Primary reference: O. Béthoux and R. G. Beattie. 2010. Iverya averyi gen. nov. and sp. nov., a New Triadotypomorphan Species from the Middle Triassic at Picton, New South Wales, Australia. Acta Geologica Sinica 84(4):688-692 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112602: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 13.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Numerous fossils have been found in sideritic lenses in the Picton-Maldon area. Fossils included sharks, palaeoniscid fishes, an amphibian skull, a beetle elytron, crustaceans, Phyllotheca and Dichroidium plant material." S. Avery
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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Triadotypidae
"Iverya averyi n. gen. n. sp." = Triassologus averyi
"Iverya averyi n. gen. n. sp." = Triassologus averyi Béthoux and Beattie 2010 winged insect
AM F.132815