Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 151.7° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° S, 144.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belmont Conglomerate Member (Croudace Bay Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• From horizon 70 feet below base of Fassifern Coal, according to Knight (1950). Fassifern coal dated at 253.38 +/- 0.08 Ma and the underlying Upper Pilot A seam at 253.55 +/- 0.06 Ma by Metcalf et al. (2015).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, tuffaceous chert
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by John Mitchell in 1922
Primary reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1926. Upper Permian insects of New South Wales Part 1. Introduction and the order Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 51:1-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122413: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Stenoscytina australiensis n. gen. n. sp., Permodiphthera robusta n. gen. n. sp., Orthoscytina indistincta n. sp.
Stenoscytina australiensis n. gen. n. sp. Tillyard 1926 true bug
Permodiphthera robusta n. gen. n. sp. Tillyard 1926 true bug
Orthoscytina indistincta n. sp. Tillyard 1926 true bug | |
Permopsyllidium mitchelli n. gen. n. sp.
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Protocoleus mitchelli n. gen. n. sp.
Protocoleus mitchelli n. gen. n. sp. Tillyard 1924 winged insect |