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Tom and Sharon HurleyField Geology Club of South Australia
Abstract: Lake Callabonna is Australia’s oldest fossil reserve. Thousands of large marsupials and birds became bogged in the blue-grey clay lake bed between 50,000 and 42,000 years ago when continent wide extinctions of the megafauna occurred.
Recognising an opportunity that the Australian Age of Dinosaurs (AAOD) Museum (Queensland) collection was lacking megafauna for their upcoming giant museum, and that the Flinders University team was not able to get to Lake Callabonna to dig last year, Tom initiated the dialog which saw funding from AAOD facilitate Flinders University guiding and collecting large fossils. This is the story of the museum collecting trip.
Bio: Tom Hurley was fascinated from a very early age by the rocks and fossils that were already being collected by family members. His enthusiasm was never dampened and it led to an underground mining career and several years with his wife Sharon as the unpaid collecting team for the “stone house museum” collection at Boulia, North West Queensland. In those years, Tom and Sharon have both had large dinosaur aged fish named after them and Tom has a Cretaceous isopod named after him as well.
Members and visitors are warmly invited to attend.
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Mawson Lecture Theatre, Adelaide,SA,Australia
