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Fossil tree stumps are found in Murihiku sediments at Curio Bay, in eastern Southland. These are thought to be remnants of a fossil forest of middle Jurassic age (about 160 million years ago) that grew on a river plain subject to flash flooding.
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Reference: CN39330/18
by Lloyd Homer
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