The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigal people as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways on which the Museum stands.
However, the new cache held fossils of small and delicate creatures such as and insects, as well as flora from the Miocene rainforest.
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A mussel larvae parasite right fossilized with the fish fin it was attached to left.
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A matrix of iron-rich rock called goethite surrounded the fossils on top of a layer of sandstone.