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
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
Insecta | |
Tettigoides pectinata n. gen. n. sp.
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Blattotermes neoxenus n. gen. n. sp.
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