Dinmore clay pit (QML 1774 collection) (Triassic of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.6° S, 152.8° E: paleocoordinates 58.6° S, 101.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blackstone Formation, 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• Purdy & Cranfield (2013) reported an unpublished SHRIMP date of 226±2 Ma for the Brisbane Tuff.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.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified mudstone

• Interbedded sandstones and mudstones accumulated on levees bordering channels and graded laterally into floodplains where carbonaceous mudstones accumulated with thin crevasse splay sandstone beds.

•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.

• Plant-rich mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Queensland Museum

Primary reference: K. J. Lambkin. 2014. Psychopsoid Neuroptera (Psychopsidae, Osmylopsycopidae) from the Queensland Triassic. Australian Entomologist 41:57-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162405: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Scytinopteridae
Eurymelidium australe2 Tillyard 1919 true bug
QM F14302
 Hemiptera - Ipsviciidae
Ipsviciopsis elegans7 Tillyard 1922 true bug
QMF60199-60235
Ipsvicia jonesi7 Tillyard 1919 true bug
QMF60157-60160, 60161-60194, 60195, 60196, 60197, 10698
 Hemiptera - Archijassidae
Mesojassus ipsviciensis6 Tillyard 1916 true bug
QMF60056-60064
Mesojassus australis6 Evans 1956 true bug
QMF60070-60084
 Hemiptera - Tettigarctidae
Mesodiphthera grandis5 Tillyard 1919 hairy cicada
QM F14311, 59840, 59841, 59842, 59843, 59844, 59845, 59846, 59847
 Hemiptera - Dysmorphoptilidae
"Eoscartoides dmitryi" = Mesonirvana dmitryi3
"Eoscartoides dmitryi" = Mesonirvana dmitryi3 Lambkin 2016 true bug
QM F13625
 Permopsocida - Archipsyllidae
Dinmopsylla semota n. gen. n. sp.4
Dinmopsylla semota n. gen. n. sp.4 Lambkin 2018 winged insect
QM F58948
 Neuroptera - Osmylopsychopidae
Osmylopsychops spillerae Tillyard 1923 lacewing
QM F57529
 Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae
Mesopsyche triareolata1 Tillyard 1917 scorpionfly
QM F.57541, F.14009, F.14301