FOSSIL SHELLFISH FOUND.
SAID TO BE FIVE MILLION YEAR'S OLD. 3T CAETiE—r-TtESS ASSOCIATION —COPY EIGHT. Received 12.5 p.m. to-day. PERTH, Jan. 5. Said to be five or six million years old, a fossil nautilus was found on a farm at Narrikup. It is a marine shellfish, representatives of which still exist in the sea. It has been placed in the Perth museum.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 7
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62FOSSIL SHELLFISH FOUND. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 7
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