Also known as Mount Crosby
Where: Queensland, Australia (27.5° S, 152.8° E: paleocoordinates 58.1° S, 125.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Crosby Formation (Ipswich Coal measures Group), 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: lacustrine; lithified shale
•"Mounty Crosby formation…has 3 shale units, up to 6m thick near the bottom, middle & top of the unit. The upper two shale units are fossiliferous with prolific plant insect remains." Jell, 2004
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Found by Jones & Denmead; University of Queensland Department of Geology collection, worked by Tindale between 1942 and 1944
Primary reference: B. Dodds. 1949. Mid-Triassic Blattoidea from the Mount Crosby Insect Bed. Papers - Department of Geology, University of Queensland 3(10):1-11 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122246: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 20.12.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham
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