Lake Macquarie, Belmont (Knight 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 O. Le M. Knight

Primary reference: J. W. Evans. 1943. Upper Permian Homoptera from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21(4):180-198 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122436: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Paraknightiidae
Paraknightia magnifica n. gen. n. sp.
Paraknightia magnifica n. gen. n. sp. Evans 1943 true bug
 Hemiptera - Archescytinidae
Permocephalus knighti Evans 1943 true bug
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