A fossilised oyster shell weighing approximately 101 b, four inches thick, a loot long, six inches wide, and estimated to be about 10,000,000 years old, has been found on the McDonald Downs Station, in the middle Waipara branch' of the Waipara River. The fossil was discovered and brought to Canterbury University College by a geology student.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26719, 13 March 1948, Page 8
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