Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.9° S, 151.2° E: paleocoordinates 63.8° S, 135.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ashfield Shales Formation (Wianamatta Group), Pelsonian to Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Late Anisian
•40-60 m thick layer in the Wianamatta Group. Overlies the 15 m thick Mittagong formation which in turn overlies the Hawkesbury Sandstone.
Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, gray claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, coalified
Collected by B. Dunstan
Primary reference: F. Chapman. 1914. Australasian Fossils. A Students’ Manual of Palaeontology 1-341 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 111729: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 28.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes | |
Sagenodus sp. Owen 1867 lungfish | |
Platysomus sp. Agassiz 1833 | |
"Palaeoniscus sp." = Palaeoniscum, Myriolepis sp.
"Palaeoniscus sp." = Palaeoniscum Blainville 1818
Myriolepis sp. Egerton 1864 | |
Actinopteri | |
Pholidophorus sp. Agassiz 1832 | |
Cleithrolepis sp. Egerton 1864 | |
Semionotus sp. Agassiz 1832
Acentrophorus sp. Traquair 1877 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Pleuracanthus sp. Agassiz 1837 elasmobranch | |
Bivalvia | |
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Insecta | |
Notoblattites subcostalis n. gen. n. sp.1
Notoblattites subcostalis n. gen. n. sp.1 Tillyard 1916 winged insect GSQI 25(complete male & female ) and GSQI 24
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"Elaterites wianamattensis n. gen. n. sp." = Elateridium wianamattense1
"Elaterites wianamattensis n. gen. n. sp." = Elateridium wianamattense1 Tillyard 1916 click beetle GSQI 30
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Metrorhynchites sydneiensis n. gen. n. sp.1, "Mesorhynchophora dunstani n. gen. n. sp." = Metrorhynchites dunstani1
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Etheridgea petrica n. sp.1
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Cycadopsida | |
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Macrotaeniopteris | |
Macrotaeniopteris sp.2 Schimper 1869 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Baiera sp.2 Braun 1843 | |
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Polypodiopsida | |
Cladophlebis sp.2 Brongniart 1849 | |
Phyllotheca sp.2 Brongniart 1828 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Oleandridium sp.2 Schimper 1869 |