Beacon Hill (BMNH collection) (Triassic of Australia)

Also known as Brookvale

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.8° S, 151.3° E: paleocoordinates 63.7° S, 135.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Brookvale shale Member (Hawkesbury Sandstone Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified shale

• "This mudstone lens may be interpreted as a lacustrine interval on a quartz sandstone coastal plain and from the fauna a freshwater enviroment is most probable." Jell, 2004
• "a lenticular mass of shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: M. Henrotay, A. Nel, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1997. New Protomyrmeleontid Damselflies from the Triassic of Australia and the Liassic of Luxembourg, with the description of Tillyardomyrmeleon petermilleri gen. nov. & spec. nov. (Archizygoptera: Protomyrmeleontidae). Odonatologica 26(4):395-404 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114773: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 24.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

• from the Tillyard collection
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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Protomyrmeleontidae
Tillyardomyrmeleon petermilleri n. gen. n. sp.
Tillyardomyrmeleon petermilleri n. gen. n. sp. Henrotay et al. 1997 winged insect
BMNH In 46119