Brachiopods - Bulahdelah Museum, NSW, Australia
S 32° 24.879 E 152° 12.543
56H E 425627 N 6413326
This small dark boulder outside the Bulahdelah Court House Museum has plenty of Brachiopod fossils in it.
Waymark Code: WM16HWK
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 08/07/2022
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The rock was originally excavated from a cutting north of Bulahdelah [~Bull-ah-dealer] in the Koolonock Range that this small town sits beside. As the interpretative sign indicates, it was quarried in 1999 by the contractor 'Theiss' while the Pacific Highway Upgrade was being constructed. Alum Mountain almost immediately to the north (and east of Bulahdelah) was mined for the alum, and used it was in toothpaste last century.
The sign gives the geological age of the fossils as 320 million years.
Visited: 1220, Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
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