Warner's Bay, Belmont (Pincombe 1931 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 1931

Primary reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1935. Upper Permian Insects of New South Wales III. The order Copeognatha. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60:265-279 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122430: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2011, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Lophioneurida - Lophioneuridae
Lophiocypha thysanella n. sp. Tillyard 1935 winged insect
 Plecoptera - Eustheniidae
"Antitaxineura anomala n. gen. n. sp." = Stenoperlidium anomala
"Antitaxineura anomala n. gen. n. sp." = Stenoperlidium anomala Tillyard 1935 stonefly