Where: Queensland, Australia (27.7° S, 152.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 153.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Redbank Plains Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Overlying basalts dated at 45 Ma, so no younger than Eocene. Paleocene age is possible but Eocene is most widely accepted.
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, ferruginous, brown, yellow mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the UQ
• Material at University of Queensland (UQF)
Primary reference: E. F. Riek. 1954. The fossil Diptera of the Tertiary Redbank Plains Series, Queensland. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 79:58-60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 125666: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Scolypopites bryani n. gen. n. sp.2
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Chorista sobrina n. sp.1
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Austropanorpa australis n. gen. n. sp.1
Austropanorpa australis n. gen. n. sp.1 Riek 1952 scorpionfly UQ F. 10634(5), 10636(7) in Riek 1952; UQF.15572 in Riek, 1967
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Protolimnophila superba n. gen. n. sp.
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"Centrocnemis imperfecta n. sp." = Australosymmerus imperfectus
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Protasmanina nana n. gen. n. sp., ? Aneura apicalis n. sp.
Protasmanina nana n. gen. n. sp. Riek 1954 fungus gnat "many specimens" including UQ F14347 (assumed to be 14 specimens by numbering of others)
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