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)
• 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, tuffaceous chert
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by John Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Pincombe in 1920, 1921
Primary reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1922. Some new Permian insects from Belmont, NSW, in the collection of Mr. John Mitchell. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47:279-292 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122475: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Archipanorpa bairdae n. sp." = Tillyardites bairdae
"Archipanorpa bairdae n. sp." = Tillyardites bairdae Tillyard 1922 winged insect | |
Permithone belmontensis n. gen. n. sp.
Permithone belmontensis n. gen. n. sp. Tillyard 1922 winged insect | |
"Parabelmontia permiana n. gen. n. sp." = Belmontia mitchelli
"Parabelmontia permiana n. gen. n. sp." = Belmontia mitchelli Tillyard 1919 scorpionfly | |
"Permochorista sinuata n. sp." = Mesochorista australica, "Permochorista affinis n. sp." = Mesochorista australica
"Permochorista sinuata n. sp." = Mesochorista australica Tillyard 1918 scorpionfly
"Permochorista affinis n. sp." = Mesochorista australica Tillyard 1918 scorpionfly | |
"Permofulgor indistinctus n. sp." = Permofulgor belmontensis
"Permofulgor indistinctus n. sp." = Permofulgor belmontensis Tillyard 1918 true bug | |
Pincombea mirabilis n. gen. n. sp.
Pincombea mirabilis n. gen. n. sp. Tillyard 1922 true bug |