Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.2° S, 149.3° E: paleocoordinates 75.0° S, 88.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• Latest Oxfordian-Tithonian, or early Tithonian: 151.55 +/- 4.27 Ma (error bar falls within Kimmeridgian). Although previously regarded to be of Early Jurassic age (Hind & Helby 1969), a latest Oxfordian–Tithonian (Late Jurassic) age has recently been determined by SHRIMP (Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe) analysis of zircon crystals obtained from this unit (Turner et al. 2009).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, tuffaceous siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Arthur Lowe
• Repository: Australian Museum, Sydney. The deposit was originally discovered by Mr. Arthur Lowe, of Wilbertree, Mudgee. Also collected by Mr. Cullen.
Primary reference: R. Etheridge and A. S. Olliff. 1890. The Mesozoic and Tertiary insects of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Palaeontology 7:1-12 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 130710: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2012, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Cicada lowei n. sp." = Griphologus lowei
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