WHALE BONES IN FOSSIL OUTCROP
MACKENZIE COUNTRY DISCOVERY Some of the bones discovered recently in an outcrop of marine fossils by Mr H. N. Hope on his property in the Mackenzie country have been identified by the professor of geology at Canterbury University College (Professor R. S. Allan) as a part of the tail vertebrae of an extinct type of whale which lived in the mid-tertiary period about 40,000.000 years ago. The Department of Geology intends to send an expedition to the region early in the summer, as it appears likely from the bones already discovered that the rest of the skeleton will be there.
The bones were sent to the Canterbury Museum and then to Professor Allan, who said that the outcrop appeared to be a continuation of a stratum which appeared first at Duntroon in North Otago. It then went by way of the Waitaki gorge through the Hakataramea valley to the area discovered.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26125, 30 May 1950, Page 4
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