Explore / Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand, Otago
Curio Bay
Jurassic petrified forest platform
Fossil site, tidal Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
FossilsAlso reported: eyes-only: silicified logs, tree stumps in growth position, hoiho (yellow-eyed penguins) at dusk.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: a 170-million-year-old fossilised forest floor, whole silicified logs and stumps exposed on the tidal platform, among the finest Jurassic fossil forests anywhere
Internationally documented fossil site with DOC interpretation, listed here as a look-only benchmark locality for petrified wood
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Waves sweep the platformOnly go out at low tide in calm conditions, sea lions haul out here, give them 20 m
Keep exploring nearby
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