Book Title: Fossil Treasures of the Geology Museum
Book Description: Tens of thousands of iconic fossils are housed in the collections of the Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka – University of Otago, in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. Used for teaching and research for over a century, here we offer a close look at some of the most special fossil treasures in the collections.
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Tens of thousands of iconic fossils are housed in the collections of the Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka – University of Otago, in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. Used for teaching and research for over a century, here we offer a close look at some of the most special fossil treasures in the collections.
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Fossil Treasures of the Geology Museum Copyright © 2025 by University of Otago is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Fossil Treasures of the Geology Museum Copyright © 2025 by University of Otago is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This book was published by University of Otago via the Council of Australasian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective. The online version is available at https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/treasures-geology-museum
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Fossil Treasures of the Geology Museum by Daniel B Thomas, Jeffrey H Robinson and Daphne E Lee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 Licence by University of Otago.
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- Content: Image in the chapter World’s oldest whitebait swam in volcanic lake.
- Source: Lee DE, McDowall RM, Lindqvist JK. 2007. Galaxias fossils from Miocene lake deposits, Otago, New Zealand: The earliest records of the Southern Hemisphere family Galaxiidae (Teleostei). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 37:109–130. doi.org/10.1080/03014220709510540
- Content: Photographs in the chapter Fossil from the Discworld? Giant turtle named for famed author.
- Source: Max and Antonia Köhler
- Content: Images in the chapter Tiny scale insects in life position.
- Source: DE Lee, U Kaulfuss and J Conran. 2022. Fossil Treasures of Foulden Maar, Otago University Press.
Recommended citation: Thomas DB, Robinson JH & Lee DE. 2025. Fossil Treasures of the Geology Museum. University of Otago. https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/treasures-geology-museum
Recommended attribution: Fossil Treasures of the Geology Museum by Daniel B Thomas, Jeffrey H Robinson and Daphne E Lee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 Licence by University of Otago.
Cover (illustration) by Daniel B Thomas includes a photograph taken by R. Ewan Fordyce (skull of specimen OU 22095 Waipatia maerewhenua) and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International Licence.
- Content: Image in the chapter World’s oldest whitebait swam in volcanic lake.