David, T. W. Edgeworth

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Etheridge, R., Jr.; David, T. W. Edgeworth; Grimshaw, J. W. (detail)
1897On 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).