ammonites
Mt. Crosby Insect Bed (Triassic of Australia)

Also known as Mount Crosby

Where: Queensland, Australia (27.5° S, 152.8° E: paleocoordinates 58.1° S, 125.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (235.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• "at the bottom of the Ipswich Series" well below the Denmark Hill bed

•Carnian according to Barone-Nugent et al. 2003

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: University of Queensland Department of Geology collection

Primary reference: E. F. Riek. 1955. Fossil insects from the Triassic beds at Mt. Crosby, Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 3(4):654-691 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106484: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.03.2011, edited by Jered Karr, Matthew Clapham and Amy Delelli

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