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Fossils of the world’s oldest known flax snails, an extinct sawshark spine, and great white shark teeth were all unearthed in a pile of sand that had been excavated from under the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant in 2020.as one of the richest and most diverse groups of three-million-year-old fauna ever found in New Zealand. At least ten previously unknown species will be described and named in future research.
As a result, it is estimated that over 300,000 fossils were examined and several thousand have been returned in the museum as a record of this “once-in-a-lifetime find.”“Detailed identification of the fossils shows that they were deposited between 3 and 3.7 million years ago in a subtidal channel in an early version of the modern Manukau Harbour,” said Dr. Hayward. “At that time, sea level was slightly higher than it is today as the world was also several degrees warmer than now.
“What is surprising,” says lead author Dr. Hayward “is that the fauna contains fossils that lived in many different environments that have been brought together in the ancient marine channel by wave action and strong tidal currents.
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