Warner's Bay, Belmont (Pincombe 1924 coll) (Permian of Australia)

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

• Switch to contractional deformation in Hunter-Bowen orogeny occurred c. 265 Ma; Sydney basin transitioned into foreland basin
• hard, fine-grained tuffaceous 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

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Protopsyllidiidae
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