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In 2020, Deans was gifted several sections of the pillars extracted cores to use in his work. However, he soon noticed the fossil embedded in one of them and brought it to Canterbury Museum for identification.
Senior natural history curator Dr Paul Scofield identified the fossil as a currently unnamed ancient species of turtle - and noticed a connection to another specimen in the museum collection.
In 1880, a similar turtle fossil was donated to the museum by James Tait, a prominent Christchurch builder who worked on many of the city s stone buildings.
Like the fossil discovered by Deans, it was embedded in Oamaru limestone that had been quarried for building masonry.
Piece of 30 million-year-old eochelone turtle found in Canterbury church rock
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It is thought the turtle would have been 2-3m long in its day - as long as the biggest turtles in the world today. Photo / 123rf
It is thought the turtle would have been 2-3m long in its day - as long as the biggest turtles in the world today. Photo / 123rf
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Paul Deans was sifting through some limestone he was given from the earthquake-destroyed Oxford Terrace Baptist Church in Christchurch when he made a prehistoric discovery.
The sculptor was planning to make pedestals for his garden, but got more than he bargained for when he found what he thought was a piece of bone in a block from one of its columns.