STRANGE FIND
SHARK’S TOOTH EMBEDDED IN ROCK.
DISCOAkERY NEAR, PIAHIATUA
WELLINGTON, February 21
A few weeks ago a party of PaJliatua residents, while inspecting some little-known caves on property at Pori, found a shark's tooth embedded in a piece of rock. The specimen was forwarded to the director of the Dominion Museum,' Dr. AV. R. B. Oliver, and be has replied as follows:
•‘The specimen which you forwarded for identification is the tooth of an extinct species of shark allied to the lifako It belongs to the genus enrcharodon, of wliicli several species have been described from New Zealand.
‘Shark’s teeth are fairly common in
the marine beds of tertiary age along with fossil shells. Most of the country to the eastward of the Tararua range is composed of marine formations, mostly limestone and usually fossiliferous. These rest against the much older unfossiliferous groywacke rock of the Tararuas."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19330225.2.45
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1933, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
148STRANGE FIND Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1933, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in