Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 151.7° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° S, 144.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Belmont Conglomerate Member (Croudace Bay Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• Insect bed is 30 cm thick, but insects concentrated approximately 2 cm below top. 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 O. Le M. Knight
Primary reference: C. Davis. 1943. A new species of Permithone (Neuroptera, Planipennia) from the Upper Permian of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68:11-12 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122434: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Permithone venosa n. sp." = Permopsychops belmontensis
"Permithone venosa n. sp." = Permopsychops belmontensis Tillyard 1926 winged insect | |
Homaloscytina plana Tillyard 1926 true bug | |
Psyllidiana davisia n. gen. n. sp.
Psyllidiana davisia n. gen. n. sp. Evans 1943 true bug |