PLOT c/63P6-YC · version 1 of 1
The writer reports that living examples of the crab his fossil matches are found at Williamstown and elsewhere on the shores of Port Phillip.
This fossil agrees with P. levis, according to Mr. Haswell to whom I forwarded some specimens. Living examples are met with at Williamstown and other parts of the shores of Port Phillip.Historical passage
About Williamstown
- Kind
- Reported by source
- Who said it
- Reported by community
- Period
- 1886
- Checked
- Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification.
- Open questions
- None openOpen questions and challenges are counted publicly; their text is published when they are resolved.
- Where it says so
- The Victorian naturalist, v.3 (1886-1887) (on archive.org) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria) · View in PLOT — p. 110, victoriannatural318861887fiel, leaf 150, printed page 110
- How they know
- accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural318861887fiel, leaf 150, printed page 110
- Limitations
- A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- Framework targets
- none linked
- Editions
- october-26th-release
How we found this
- In short
- Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Species written about here", in historical_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
- Protocol
- accounts-core 0.1.0
- Question
- Species written about here
- Channel
- historical_archives
- Query
- Williamstown | Williams Town | Williams-town | Point Gellibrand | Gellibrand's Point | Gellibrand Point | Jawbone | Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural318861887fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
- Screening
- include (meets criteria), proposed by AI: Living crabs of the fossil's genus reported at Williamstown's shore.
- Extraction
- claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1
- Note
- accounts-core run williamstown-2026-10-23: Internet Archive texts (Victorian Naturalist v.1-37, Letters from Victorian Pioneers) and ALA specimen facets. Trove and BHL blocked: they need API keys.
Cite as: PLOT record c/63P6-YC v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1886), reported by source
History (1)
- Version 1 (shown here): first published version