Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 144.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 144.7° E)

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When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: In November 1979 the Victorian Ports and Harbors Dredge Cornorant dredged up a mammalian rib bone from 2.5 rnwater depth in Port Phillip Bay, offshore of the township of Queenscliff (38'16'S, 144"39'E), near Melbourne (Victoria), Australia (Fig. 1)

Primary reference: E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2005. Holocene Record of the Dugong (Dugong dugon) from Victoria, Southeast Australia. Marine Mammal Science 21(2):355-361 [B. Beatty/B. Beatty]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 123111: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.01.2012

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