Australian Museum Journal Palaeontologia Novae Cambriae Meridionalis—occasional descriptions of New South Wales fossils—No. 6
- Shortform:
- Etheridge, 1917, Rec. Aust. Mus. 11(10): 219–226
- Author(s):
- Etheridge, R.
- Year published:
- 1917
- Title:
- Palaeontologia Novae Cambriae Meridionalis—occasional descriptions of New South Wales fossils—No. 6
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 10
- Start page:
- 219
- End page:
- 226
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.11.1917.917
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates xl–xli
- Date published:
- 12 July 1917
- Cover date:
- 12 July 1917
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- MOLLUSCA: BIVALVIA; TAXONOMY; PALAEONTOLOGY
- Digitized:
- 03 November 2008
- Available online:
- 16 December 2008
- Reference number:
- 917
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (98kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1561kb PDF)
Abstract
At Mount Wilson, on Dunlop Holding, about thirty miles north-west of Dunlop Homestead, Darling River, a well was sunk previous to 1881, to a depth of about five hundred feet, as a means of water supply. In 1903 I visited the locality and found the surroundiug spoil heaps in a great measure composed of a blue calcareous mudstone. This matrix is crammed with broken valves and shell fragments of a small bivalve, so plentiful as to almost form a "musselband," and certainly a good "horizon-indicator" in this portion of our Lower Cretaceous.