Mount Crosby Insect locality C (Lambkin collection): Norian, Australia
collected by Kevin Lambkin
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta
- Mecoptera
- Bittacidae
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Archebittacus exilis
Riek 1955
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1 specimen | |||||||||
QM F58842 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Queensland |
Coordinates: | 27.6° South, 152.8° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 58.5° South, 101.1° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Norian | ||
Age range of interval: | 228.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Mount Crosby | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Purdy & Cranfield (2013) reported an unpublished SHRIMP date of 226±2 Ma for the Brisbane Tuff.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. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" | ||
Environment: | lacustrine - small | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: 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. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collectors: | Kevin Lambkin |
Collection method comments: Repository: Kevin Lambkin Collection (now donated to Queensland Museum) |
Metadata
Database number: | 191411 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
Created: | 2018-01-26 23:31:03 | Last modified: | 2018-01-26 23:31:03 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-01-26 23:31:03 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
64589. | K. J. Lambkin. 2017. Archebittacus exilis Riek—the oldest hangingfly (Insecta: Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Zootaxa 4290:385-389 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |