Australian Museum Journal The further discovery of Dugong bones on the coast of New South Wales
- Shortform:
- Etheridge, 1905, Rec. Aust. Mus. 6(1): 17–19
- Author(s):
- Etheridge, R.
- Year published:
- 1905
- Title:
- The further discovery of Dugong bones on the coast of New South Wales
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 17
- End page:
- 19
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.6.1905.983
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plate iv
- Date published:
- 15 June 1905
- Cover date:
- 15 June 1905
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 06 August 2009
- Reference number:
- 983
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (100kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (653kb PDF)
Abstract
For an opportunity of again recording the occurrence of bones of the Dugong (Halicore dugong, Gmelin, sp.) on the coast of New South Wales, I am indebted to Mr. P. E. Williams, Comptroller of the Government Savings Bank, and Secretary to the Sydney Ethnological Committee. During the excavation of Shea's Creek, Cook River, Botany Bay, for the canal bearing the same name, portions of a Dugong skeleton were discovered near the top of the estuarine clay, and just above the extensive estuarine shell bed which is so marked a stratigraphical feature in the alluvial section laid bare by the canal cutting.