Warner's Bay, Belmont (BMNH 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

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: E. E. Becker-Migdisova. 1985. Iskopaemye Nasekomye Psillomorfy. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 206:1-92 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126594: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Protopsyllidiidae
Protopsyllidium australe Tillyard 1926 true bug
In. 45283, 45212, 45574
Protopsyllidium sinuatum Davis 1942 true bug
In. 45270, 45226, 45296, 45326
 Hemiptera - Permopsyllidiidae
"Pincombea media" = Psocopsyllidium media Davis 1942 true bug
In. 39953
Permopsyllidium australense n. sp. Becker-Migdisova 1985 true bug
In. 45215
Eopsyllidium davisi Becker-Migdisova 1985 true bug
In. 45262
Eopsyllidium delicatulum Davis 1942 true bug
In. 45220
 Hemiptera - Pincombeidae
Pincombea mirabilis Tillyard 1922 true bug
In. 45295, 45206
Pincombea parvifurcata n. sp. Becker-Migdisova 1985 true bug
In. 45282, 45224