ammonites
Etheridgea petrica Tillyard 1916 (snout beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1916. Descriptions of the fossil Insects; Mesozoic and Tertiary Insects of Queensland and New South Wales. Descriptions of the fossil Insects and stratigraphical features. Queensland Geological Survey (253)11-70

Belongs to Etheridgea according to R. J. Tillyard 1916

Sister taxon: Etheridgea australis

Type specimen: GSQI31, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Carrington Brick Company's clay pit, St Peter's (Dunstan collection), which is in a Pelsonian/Illyrian wet floodplain claystone in the Ashfield Shales Formation of Australia.

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Average measurements (in mm): body 10.5 x 4.9, elytron length 9.00