RESEARCH PAPERS OR ARTICLES RELEVANT TO BEAUMARIS BAY FOSSIL SITE AT BEAUMARIS BAY - compiled by Dr Vicki Karalis, SFA president with contribution of links to articles and citations from DELWP, palaeontologists and geologists 1. Australian Government, Dept of the Environment http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=18053 2. Beaumaris Cliffs 2 (Yacht Squadron) - Fossil Site http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/portregn.nsf/pages/port_lf_sig_sites_beaumaris2 3. VEAC (Victorian Environmental Assessment Council) Metropolitan Melbourne Study 2008/9 Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance on Public Land. Final Report May 2009 http://www.veac.vic.gov.au/reports/VEAC_MetroMelb_GeolGeom_Final_Report09.pdf http://www.veac.vic.gov.au/reports/VEAC_MetroMelb_GeolGeom_Final_Report09.pdf 4. DEPI website 60. Beaumaris Cliffs 2 (Yacht Squadron) - Fossil Site http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/portregn.nsf/pages/port_lf_sig_sites_beaumaris2 5. Planning issues http://planningschemes.dpcd.vic.gov.au/schemes/bayside/ordinance/42_01s01_bays.pdf http://planningschemes.dpcd.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/175604/bayside05eso.pdf The site is the only place in Bayside municipality with an Environmental Significance Overlay, whose Schedule is based largely on the former National Estate citation. The Victorian Government had to approve that overlay. To its credit, it was the Bayside City Council that originally made the successful 1999 nomination of the BBFS to the Register of the National Estate. It also instigated the ESO, but no move has been made to have it nominate the Site to the National Heritage List. The Government said it would go further than the 2011 VEAC Report recommended, but that was only for the terrestrial part of the fossil site and not the marine part, which seems to be mainly a concern of the Museum of Victoria. 6. When the fossil of a Pelagornis bone was found at Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site, it was established for the first time that the Pelagornis, a gigantic seabird flew over Australia 65 million years ago: http://scienceillustrated.com.au/blog/science/news/gigantic-seabirds-once-glided-over-the-australian-coast/ http://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/_archives/2012/06/27/giant-toothed-birds-once-soared-over-australia.html

7. Ter, P.C. & Buckeridge, J.St.J.S. 2012. Ophiomorpha beaumarisensis isp. nov., a trace fossil from the late Neogene Beaumaris Sandstone is the burrow of a thalassinidean lobster. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 124(3): 223-231. ISSN 0035-9211. http://www.beaumarisconservation.net/ter_buckeridge_beaumaris_sandstone.pdf 8. The Sydney Morning Herald. Beaumaris fossil sheds light on ancient seals. Date December 28, 2013 by Bridie Smith.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/beaumaris-fossil-sheds-light-on-ancient-seals-20131227-2zzqr.html

9. 5 million sea turtle fossil discovered at Beaumaris Bay: http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-centre/media-releases/melbourne-coastline-reveals-first-record-of-prehistoric-sea-turtle/ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-05/five-million-year-old-sea-turtle-fossil-discovered-in-melbourne/5946666 Erich M. G. Fitzgerald & Lesley Kool. The first fossil sea turtles (Testudines: Cheloniidae) from the Cenozoic of Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2015.964047

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03115518.2015.964047?journalCode=talc20#/doi/abs/10.1080/03115518.2015.964047?journalCode=talc20

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2015.964047 10. Erich M. G. Fitzgerald, Travis Park & Trevor H. Worthy. First giant bony-toothed bird (Pelagornithidae) from Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Volume 32, Issue 4, 2012 pages 971-974 DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2012.664596 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2012.664596#tabModule http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/23251287?uid=3737536&uid=2460338175&uid=2460337935&uid=2&uid=4&uid=83&uid=63&sid=21104506339313 11. Park, T. and E.M.G. Fitzgerald. 2012. A review of Australian fossil penguins (Aves: Sphenisciformes). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69:309–325.

12. Park, T. and E.M.G. Fitzgerald. 2012. Late Miocene–early Pliocene Mihirung bird (Aves: Dromornithidae) from Victoria, Australia. Alcheringa 36:419–422. 13. Fitzgerald, E.M.G. 2012. Possible neobalaenid from the Miocene of Australia implies a long evolutionary history for the pygmy right whale Caperea marginata (Cetacea: Mysticeti). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:976–980. 14. Fitzgerald, E.M.G., T. Park, and T.H. Worthy. 2012. First giant bony-toothed bird (Pelagornithidae) from Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:971–974. 15. Fitzgerald, E.M.G., J. Velez-Juarbe, and R.T. Wells. 2013. Miocene sea cow (Sirenia) from Papua New Guinea sheds light on sirenian evolution in the Indo-Pacific. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:956–963. 16. Fitzgerald, E.M.G. and L. Kool. Under Review as of 22 July 2014. The first fossil sea turtles (Testudines, Cheloniidae) from the Cenozoic of Australia. Alcheringa. 17. Fitzgerald, E.M.G. 2012. The last of the flying giants. Australasian Science 33: 18–21. 18. Fitzgerald, E.M.G. 2012. Lost Serengeti of the sea: the marine megafauna of Beaumaris. Australian Age of Dinosaurs Journal 9: 70–78. 19. Louchart A, Sire J-Y, Mourer-Chauvire C, Geraads D, Viriot L, et al. (2013) Structure and Growth Pattern of Pseudoteeth in Pelagornis mauretanicus (Aves, Odontopterygiformes, Pelagornithidae). PLoS ONE 8(11): e80372. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080372

http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0080372&representation=PDF

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0080372

20. Australian Geographic. Giant bony-toothed bird fossil found. By Tiffany Hoy, June 29, 2012

A bizarre bony-toothed, giant bird fossil, with a 5m wingspan, has been discovered in Victoria. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2012/06/giant-bony-toothed-bird-fossil-found/

21. Buckeridge, J. S., 1983. The fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 50: 1-151 + 14pls. ISBN 0-447-06712-3.

22. Ter, P.C. and J. S. Buckeridge, 2012. Renaming of the lithology as the Beaumaris sandstone: Ophiomorpha beaumarisensis isp. nov., a tracefossil from the late Neogene Beaumaris Sandstone (stat. nov.) is the burrow of a thalassinidean lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 123: 223-231.

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Textbooks

45. Reeves, J. and J. Buckeridge, 2012. The Urban Sanctuary. Algae and Marine Invertebrates of Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary. Greypath Publications, Melbourne. 140 pp. ISBN 978-0-9804483-5-1.

46. Long, J.A., Archer, M., Flannery, T.F., Hand, S. 2002. Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea -100 Million years of Evolution. University of NSW Press, Sydney, Australia; John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA, 244pp. Beaumaris is mentioned on entries on pp11,92,98, 201, 202, 203, 205, 207.