Bibliography Record

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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).

Related Index Records (4)

Archeological Sites, Sirenia at
  x * 1897 Etheridge et al. (DD; Sydney, Australia; ?Pleist. ?kill; 174, 178-180, pls. 8-11.)

Australia
  x * 1897 Etheridge et al. (DD; ?Pleist. skeleton, Sydney, 170-174, 178-180, pls. 8-11; modern distr., 172.)

Halicore dugong (Gmelin, 1788) Illiger, 1811
(= Dugong dugon)
  x 1897 Etheridge et al. (?Pleist., Sydney, Australia; 170-174, 178-180, pls. 8-11.)

Pleistocene
  x 1897 Etheridge et al. (DD; ?Pleist., Sydney, Australia; 170-174, 178-180, pls. 8-11.)


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