Rare Fossil Shells
Fossil shells discovered some time ago in the southern part of the Kimberley districts, in the far north of Western Australia, have been found by Dr. C. Teichert, research palaeontologist at the University of Western Australia, to be the only fossils of their kind yet recorded outside Europe or America. Speaking on “Devonian Nautoloid Cephalopods” at a meeting of the Royal Society of Western Australia, Dr. Teichert said that geological studies showed that the distribution of the land and sea had been subjectto frequent changes in the past, and large tracts of Australia were at different periods covered by sea. The nautoloid group of fossil animals lived in the sea of the Devonian period, about three hundred million years ago. Until he recognised the specimens in the University fossil collection and in the fossil collection at Canberra they had not been recorded outside Europe or America.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1938, Page 9
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149Rare Fossil Shells Northern Advocate, 21 October 1938, Page 9
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