Clay pits, Dinmore (UQ collection) (Eocene of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.6° S, 152.8° 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

• A shallow, permanent lake with a floor of "mud, decayed vegetable matter and algae"
• The matrix is a dark yellowish brown clay ironstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: E. F. Riek. 1952. Fossil insects from the Tertiary sediments at Dinmore, Queensland. Papers - Department of Geology, University of Queensland 4(2):17-22 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154073: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae
Tettigoides pectinata n. gen. n. sp.
Tettigoides pectinata n. gen. n. sp. Riek 1952 katydid
UQ F.10640
 Blattodea - Mastotermitidae
Blattotermes neoxenus n. gen. n. sp.
Blattotermes neoxenus n. gen. n. sp. Riek 1952 termite
UQ F.10431a(b)