Mount Crosby Insect locality B (Lambkin collection) (Triassic of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.6° S, 152.8° E: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 101.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Purdy & Cranfield (2013) reported an unpublished SHRIMP date of 226±2 Ma for the Brisbane Tuff. Therefore, the Blackstone Formation may be considered younger than 226 Ma in absolute age. Thus, the Ipswich Coal Measures above the Brisbane Tuff, which is to say, the succession from the Mount Crosby Formation to the top of the Blackstone Formation must now be considered Norian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified shale

• Ipswich basin; transtensional rift in intermontane setting. Basin geometry affected by strike-slip movement along West Ipswich fault. Ipswich coal measures deposited near end of rifting phase.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by K.J. Lambkin

• Repository: Queensland Museum

Primary reference: K. J. Lambkin. 1988. A re-examination of Lithosmylidia Riek from the Triassic of Queensland with notes on Mesozoic 'osmylid-like' fossil Neuroptera (Insecta: Neuroptera). Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 25:445-458 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154204: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.02.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Scytinopteridae
Mesoscytina fistulae n. sp.3 Lambkin 2016 true bug
QM F58695, F58696
 Hemiptera - Dysmorphoptilidae
Dysmorphoptiloides elongata2 Evans 1956 true bug
QM F57811, F57812, F57813, F57814-F57820
Mesocixius parvus2 Evans 1956 true bug
QM F57793, F57794
Tennentsia princeps2 Lambkin 2015 true bug
QM F57825
 Neuroptera - Osmylopsychopidae
Petropsychops superbus1 Riek 1956 lacewing
QM F57531
Osmylopsychops spillerae1 Tillyard 1923 lacewing
QM F57530
 Neuroptera - Archeosmylidae
Lithosmylidia parvula Riek 1955 lacewing
QM F14359