One of New Zealand's most exceptional fossil sites may soon be open to scientists again following a land purchase that saved it from commercial mining . John G Conran Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide Daphne Lee Honorary Assocate Professor in Geology/Paleontology, University of Otago Uwe Kaulfuss Geologist (PhD), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Foulden Maar is a small, deep lake that formed 23 million years ago in Otago, at the start of the Miocene epoch when New Zealand's climate was much warmer and wetter.

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