Geology Museum at the University of Otago
2 and 3 October - Things have been pretty quiet in the fossil preparation research laboratory, adjacent to the Geology Museum, since Professor R. Ewan Fordyce, "Geology's paleontological powerhouse," passed away in 2023.
Hakataramea is a rural village in southern Canterbury, 60 km west of Waimate on the north bank of the Waitaki River.  Odontocetes are toothed whales including dolphins.
Tools of the trade.
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Lots more treasures are housed in the basement...
Tokarahia kauaeroa, a new species of whale discovered in 2014.  Robert W. Boessenecker and R. Ewan Fordyce. 2015. A New Genus and Species of Eomysticetid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) and A Reinterpretation of ‘Mauicetus’ lophocephalus  Marples, 1956: Transitional Baleen Whales from the upper Oligocene of New Zealand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

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