Fox and Partridge's claim, Red Hill, near Emmaville (Pliocene of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.5° S, 151.6° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° S, 151.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Youngest Tertiary stanniferous lead of the Vegetable Creek tin-field; Upper Tertiary. Beds are generally considered to be of Pliocene age according to Riek (1954).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, fine-grained, brown ironstone

• Fine brown earthy ironstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by C.S. Wilkinson, T.W. Edgeworth David

• Repository: Australian Museum, Sydney.

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 132306: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Ephemeroptera - Baetidae
Cloeon emmavillensis n. sp.
Cloeon emmavillensis n. sp. Riek 1954 mayfly
Ephemera culleni specimen in figure 9 of Etheridge and Olliff
 Ephemeroptera - Leptophlebiidae
"Ephemera culleni n. sp." = Atalophlebia culleni
"Ephemera culleni n. sp." = Atalophlebia culleni Etheridge and Olliff 1890 mayfly
 Diptera - Chironomidae
"Chironomus venerabilis n. sp." = Chironomus venerabilis, "Palaeolycus problematicus n. gen. n. sp." = Chironomus venerabilis
"Chironomus venerabilis n. sp." = Chironomus venerabilis Etheridge and Olliff 1890 non biting midge
"Palaeolycus problematicus n. gen. n. sp." = Chironomus venerabilis Etheridge and Olliff 1890 non biting midge