Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 151.6° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° S, 144.3° 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, fine-grained, tuffaceous, gray chert
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by T.H. Pincombe in 1924
Collection methods: mechanical
• One large block of chert collected in 1924 and later broken by Mr. Pincombe.
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 122418: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Protopsyllidium australe n. gen. n. sp.
Protopsyllidium australe n. gen. n. sp. Tillyard 1926 true bug Block taken 1924 and broken later, specimens discovered on Sept 12, 1925 and subsequently
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