Abstract

At various beaches on the south, south-east, north, and north-west coasts of Australia, remains of Decapoda more or less encased in clay-nodules, are every now and then brought to light, but very few facts appear to have been gathered as to their mode of occurrence when in situ. Again, similar, animal remains have been met with in excavating canals in delta deposits, on]y in such instances they are less markedly nodular, and have undergone a lesser degree of fossilisation. A third occurrence is that of river, or perhaps estuarine, deposits brought to Iight through dredging operations.

As an instance of the first mode of occurrence we cite Anson Bay, North-west Australia; of the second the Coode Canal, Yarra River Delta; and of the third dredging operations carried on at the mouth of the Brisbane River, Moreton Bay. All of these occurrences will be referred to later.

 
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Bibliographic Data

Short Form
Etheridge and McCulloch, 1916, Rec. Aust. Mus. 11(1): 1–14
Author
R. Etheridge; Allan R. McCulloch
Year
1916
Title
Sub-fossil crustaceans from the coasts of Australia
Serial Title
Records of the Australian Museum
Volume
11
Issue
1
Start Page
1
End Page
14
DOI
10.3853/j.0067-1975.11.1916.906
Language
en
Plates
plates i–vii
Date Published
21 February 1916
Cover Date
21 February 1916
ISSN (print)
0067-1975
CODEN
RAUMAJ
Publisher
The Australian Museum
Place Published
Sydney, Australia
Subjects
CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA; FOSSIL; PALAEONTOLOGY
Digitized
20 October 2008
Available Online
04 November 2008
Reference Number
906
EndNote
906.enw
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