35-million-year-old fossils in a New Zealand mountain stream

I head into a new district, Mackenzie Country, to look for fossils in the mountains around Lake Tekapo. It’s an amazingly beautiful country and the terrain was very different to what I was used to. I wasn’t sure if I was going to find anything but managed to find some amazing gastropods and had fun exploring a new area.

The area is Eocene, around 34-million-years-old, way older than I thought. Next time I’m sure I’m going to get some shark teeth from the area.

I have uploaded the finds from this video to my website: https://mamlambofossils.com if you want to take a closer look at some of the finds.

https://mamlambofossils.com/item/84 - large bivalve https://mamlambofossils.com/item/83 - large whelk https://mamlambofossils.com/item/82 - Zeacuminia tahuia shell https://mamlambofossils.com/item/85 - medium bivalve https://mamlambofossils.com/item/81 - coral https://mamlambofossils.com/item/86 - the small shell I found while prepping the whelk

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