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Fossil collection

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Fossil collection

New Zealand’s largest fossil collection is held in the paleontological collections of GNS Science, in Lower Hutt. Geologist Graeme Stevens holds up his monograph on fossil ammonites, largely based on fossils from the collection.

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Simon Nathan, Collections of plants and animals – Types of collections, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12142/fossil-collection (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Simon Nathan, published 1 March 2009.