FOSSIL FINDS
Appeal To Public
Members of the public were collecting increasing numbers of fossil crabs on the North Canterbury Coast and it was important that they should realise the scientific importance of their finds, the keeper of geology (Mr D. R. Gregg) told the Canterbury Museum Trust Board.
Beautifully-preserved fossil crabs had been found for many years in concretionary boulders between Motunau Beach and the mouth of the Waipara river, he said. Crabs were comparatively rare as fossils, and these specimens were outstanding by world standards. Mr Gregg said some of the better specimens were being added to museum collections. A recent addition was a fossil crayfish. Crayfish were extremely rare as fossils and this one, with a body only three inches long, might be of considerable scientific importance. It was probably about five million years old. This was found at Motunau Beach by Mr and Mrs William Elliot, of “Liddiebank,” Motunau.
Mrs Elliot is a daughter of the noted New Zealand geologist, Mr Horace Fyfe, now retired in Wellington.
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Press, Issue 31095, 25 June 1966, Page 20
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171FOSSIL FINDS Press, Issue 31095, 25 June 1966, Page 20
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