Back in the late 1980s I had the pleasure of meeting the English scientist David Bellamy. Bellamy was famous at the time as …
Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Horsetail Marshes of the New Zealand Jurassic
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the Jurassic, New Zealand had ‘horsetails’ (Latin: Equisetum) – an odd-looking plant , a bit like a long brush with whorls of …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Podozamites – a multi-veined conifer in New Zealand’s Jurassic
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleMost conifer leaves have just one vein, whether they be the needles of pines, or the much broader leaves of some tropical …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
New Zealand: The Jurassic fossil forest at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIf you make your way down to almost the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, you can walk among the stumps of …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Where was the Murihiku in the Jurassic?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleA few years ago I used to teach American classes that came to the University of Queensland. One evening my Stanford class …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Globalisation in the Jurassic – the fossil fern Coniopteris in New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOne of the plant fossils that turns up in New Zealand’s Jurassic rocks is a delicate-looking fern frond called Coniopteris (Arber, 1917; …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Palissya – mysterious cone of New Zealand’s Jurassic forests
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the early 1980s when I was working on the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, near the bottom end of New Zealand’s …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Cladophlebis – New Zealand’s Mesozoic Weed
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe fern Cladophlebis is probably the single-most common plant fossil in the New Zealand Jurassic. It’s present in virtually every plant fossil …
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