Australian Museum Journal Note on the occurrence of the sand-rock containing bones of extinct species of marsupials (Emu, Kangaroo, Wombat, etc.,) on King Island, Bass Strait, Tasmania
- Shortform:
- Anderson, 1914, Rec. Aust. Mus. 10(9): 275–284
- Author(s):
- Anderson, William
- Year published:
- 1914
- Title:
- Note on the occurrence of the sand-rock containing bones of extinct species of marsupials (Emu, Kangaroo, Wombat, etc.,) on King Island, Bass Strait, Tasmania
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 9
- Start page:
- 275
- End page:
- 284
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.10.1914.903
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 03 October 1914
- Cover date:
- 03 October 1914
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- MAMMALIA: MARSUPIALIA
- Digitized:
- 16 January 2009
- Available online:
- 06 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 903
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (69kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (776kb PDF)
Abstract
During a recent visit to King Island I was, through the kindness of Mr. J. M. Bowling, fortunate in being able to make a cursory examination of the deposits in which the bones of extinct species of Marsupials occur, and to obtain a small collection of the fossils which are now deposited in the Australian Museum, Sydney.
It has not previously been observed that the wind-blown sand forming the recent dunes is not the original matrix of the fossils. Hence this note...