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Fossils in Murgon, QLD
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/murgon/Murgon is significant as the only site in Australia that records a diverse vertebrate fauna dating from the early Tertiary Period (55 million years ago), approximately ten million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Fossils in Talbragar, NSW
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/talbragar/Talbragar is a well-known fossil site in Australia and contains one of the most significant Jurassic terrestrial fossil deposits in Australia. It is also the only Jurassic fish site found in New South Wales.
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Common Fossils of the Sydney Basin
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/common-fossils-of-the-sydney-basin/The Sydney region, extending from Wollongong to Newcastle and Lithgow, is part of a large geological feature called the Sydney Basin.
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What are fossils?
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/The word ‘palaeontology’ refers to the study of ancient life. It is derived from the Greek words palaios (ancient) and logos (study). Fossils form the basis of this science.
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Fossils in Canowindra, NSW
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/canowindra/The Canowindra fossil fauna is a very rich Late Devonian fish fauna and is listed as part of Australia's National Heritage.
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Fossil sites near Sydney
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/fossil-sites-near-sydney/Fossils have been found at many sites near Sydney. Some of these are no longer accessible but coastal exposures still give the amateur collector ample chance of finding good fossils.
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Fossils in Alcoota, NT
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/alcoota/The grass-covered plains at Alcoota Station form a thin veneer over an enormous bed of fossil bones that are around eight million years old.
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Predator and prey: The Winton Trackway
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/predator-and-prey-the-winton-trackway/We can never witness the awesome reality of a dinosaur stalking and attacking its prey. However, one fossil trackway near Winton in Queensland gives us the rare opportunity to reconstruct such a moment, to 're-live' the movement, reactions, fear and panic.
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Fossils in Lightning Ridge, NSW
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/lightning-ridge/Deposits at Lightning Ridge yield some of the rarest, most beautiful and precious fossils in the world.
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Fossils in Naracoorte, SA
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/naracoorte/Pleistocene fossil vertebrate deposits of Victoria Fossil Cave at Naracoorte are considered to be Australia's largest and best preserved.
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