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Fossil bone

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Fossil bone

This piece of fossil bone is encased in hard sandstone from Haumuri Bluff. Bone fragments like this are common, but it is more difficult to find larger pieces or whole bones, which must be painstakingly extracted from the sandstone.

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Private collection

by Bruce Hayward

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How to cite this page

Hamish Campbell, Fossils – Uses and collections, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9052/fossil-bone (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Hamish Campbell, published 2 March 2009.