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Favourite set: Forming and Collecting Fossils

how do fossils form? how does the Museum get the fossils?

  • Australian Museum Palaeontology Collection
  • Common Fossils of the Sydney Basin
  • Fossil sites near Sydney
  • Collecting fossils in New South Wales
  • What are fossils?
  • How are fossils formed?
  • How are fossils found and excavated?
  • Preparing fossils, reconstructing the past
  • From dinosaur to fossil: stage 1
  • From dinosaur to fossil: stage 2
  • From dinosaur to fossil: stage 3
  • From dinosaur to fossil: stage 4

Created by: Susan Hersey
Last updated: 25 November 2009

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