Oochiton halli Ashby, 1929
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Oochiton halli Ashby, 1929 |
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Oochiton halli Ashby, 1929 View in CoL
(Type species of the genus OD)
Oochiton halli Ashby, 1929a: 222 View in CoL , pl. 24, figs 1a, b, 2, 3a, b, 8a, b.— Ashby and Cotton, 1939: 239, pl. 21, fig. 55; Cotton and Godfrey, 1940: 574, Fig. 588; Cotton, 1964: 127, Fig. 138.
Distribution. Otway Basin: Muddy Creek Formation. Port Phillip Basin: Gellibrand Formation (type). Age : early–middle Miocene.
Remarks. Ashby and Cotton (1939) claimed that the holotype of this species (from Balcombe Bay, Mornington) had been destroyed in a fire at Ashby’s house in 1934 and erected a neotype from another locality, Clifton Bank, Muddy Creek near Hamilton, Victoria (Muddy Creek Formation). This statement was accepted by Gowlett-Homes and McHenry (1988b: 10). The claim is false. The holotype (NMV P13496, pl. 24, figs 1a, b) labelled as such by Ashby is still present in the Palaeontology type collection of Museums Victoria. Apparently it was one of the paratypes (pl. 24, fig. 8) held by Ashby that was destroyed.
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Oochiton halli Ashby, 1929
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Oochiton halli
| Cotton, B. C. 1964: 127 |
| Cotton, B. C. & Godfrey, F. K. 1940: 574 |
| Ashby, E. & Cotton, B. C. 1939: 239 |
| Ashby, E. 1929: 222 |