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"Etheridge, R., Jr."

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 Etheridge, R., Jr.; David, T. W. Edgeworth; Grimshaw, J. W. (detail)
   
1897
On the occurrence of a submerged forest, with remains of the dugong, at Shea's Creek, near Sydney.
Jour. Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 30: 158-185. Pls. 8-11 + 10A & 11A. Read Aug. 5, 1896.
–Describes a partial dugong skeleton, showing marks of butchering, found in Quaternary deposits in a canal excavation at Botany Bay (170-174, 178-180, pls. 8-11A). Discusses the occurrence of dugongs in New South Wales and mentions one caught in Broken Bay ca. 1894 (172). The Botany Bay subfossil occurrence was restudied by Haworth et al. (2004).
 
 
 Etheridge, R., Jr. (detail)
   
1900
Curator's report for 1899.
Australian Mus. (Rept. Trustees) 1899: 3-7 (Appendix 1).
–Records the donation of fossil vertebrae of Halicore dugong from "the Gold-bearing drift" on Woodlark Is., Papua New Guinea (7; also 24). Molnar (1982: 680) gives the catalog number of this material as AM F5795.
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 Etheridge, R., Jr. (detail)
   
1905
The further discovery of dugong bones on the coast of New South Wales.
Rec. Austral. Mus. 6: 17-19. Pl. 4.
–Summarizes occurrences of dugongs in New South Wales, including finds in Aboriginal kitchen middens.
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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