In January 1948 Malcolm Simpson, a Nelson schoolboy, was a member of the party that accompanied geologist Noel Benson of the University of Otago on an expedition to the Cobb Valley. Malcolm found fossils which were later identified as trilobites – the first Cambrian fossils found in New Zealand.
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