Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.1° S, 150.8° E: paleocoordinates 64.8° S, 134.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ashfield Shales Formation (Wianamatta Group), Pelsonian to Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Late Anisian. 300-400 feet above top of Hawkesbury Sandstone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; lithified shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by John Mitchell in 1892
• At least one specimen collected in 1892, others collected at same time or in 1890s or early 1900s.
Primary reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1918. Permian and Triassic insects from New South Wales, in the collection of Mr. John Mitchell. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42:720-756 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111683: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Triassopsylla plecioides n. gen. n. sp.
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Notoblattites mitchelli n. sp., Notoblattites wianamattensis n. sp.
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"Mesopanorpa wianamattensis n. gen. n. sp." = Mesopanorpodes wianamattensis
"Mesopanorpa wianamattensis n. gen. n. sp." = Mesopanorpodes wianamattensis Tillyard 1918 scorpionfly Mitchell 5
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Elateridium angustius n. sp.
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Metrorhynchites grandis n. sp.
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Adelidium cordatum n. gen. n. sp.
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