Collections

Highlights

The Palaeontology collection contains some of the treasures of the Museum. These include 'Eric' the opalised pliosaur from Coober Pedy and other opalised fossils such as some of Australia's oldest mammal fossils from the opal fields of Lightning Ridge.

	Kollikodon		Steropodon
	Eric		Austrolimulus fletcheri Riek
	Clatrotitan andersoni McKeown		Cleithrolepis granulata Egerton
	Dalmanites loomesi Mitchell		Dicroidium callipteroides
	Fletcheriana triassica Evans		Halysites sp.
	Leptolepis talbragarensis Woodward		Meiolania platyceps Owen
	Meiolania carapace		Meiolania oblique view
	Meiolania skull, dorsal and ventral		Macrophthalmus serratus Adams and White
	Myloceras ammonoides (Etheridge)		Opalised animal fossil specimens
	Opalised plant fossil specimens		Xystridura templetonensis

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