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10 The NEWS North Canterbury News, December 14, 2023 AGreat White ancestor uncovered in NC By JOHN COSGROVE To most people the small pebble or boulder washed smooth on the beach by hundreds of thousands of years of water action is just that –apebble. But when amateur palaeontologist Morne Mamlambo‘s trained eye spotted a tiny fissure in apebble at Motunau Beach, he carefully uncovered a6millionyearold shark’s tooth that spawned awhole new species for New Zealand. It could possibly be the famed Great White shark's Paleocene period ancestor and it goes by the name of Hubbell'swhite shark —scientific name Carcharadon hubbelli. He says it probably grew to be more than 5m in size. ‘‘In fact it is atransitional shark species, one that bridges earlier species, the Hastalis, with the Great Whites of today,’’ he says. ‘‘This is the furthest south that they have been found and it is helping scientists globally. Morne says the tooth dates from the Miocene period, betweensix to 11 million years ago. ‘‘The reason it is important is that it can tell us very precisely how old that particular rock is, as the transitional shark are only know from areas that are six to eight million years old.’’ The South African born software engineer uses hunting for fossils on beachesinNorth Canterbury as away to relieve the stresses of work. Most weekends he can be found out lookingfor fossils in and around the mouth of the Motunau River, near the small Motunau Beach settlement. Once he finds aprospect or two, he painstakinglychips the fossils out of them, often reverting to Xrays and 3D printing technology to see them, which was the Rare find... Morne Mamlambo’s shark tooth he found in Motunau Beach, which has been publishedasanew species for New Zealand. It is related to the great white shark. case of arecent Turtle skull. It took him five months to break it freeofits boulder. His palaeontology journey began five years ago when he found afossilised dolphin vertebra while walking along the beach. He took it to the Canterbury Museum and they said it was over six million years old. Since then he has uncovered all sorts of Beach treasure ... Amateur palaeontologist Morne Mamlambo holding a48million year old billfish skull he found recently. PHOTOS: MAMLAMBO FOSSILS fossils from the beach area dating from periods up to 66 million years ago. There has been plenty of sharks teeth, all manner of crabs, shells, and other fossils,and acomplete skeleton of anew species of penguin. Keen to show his family what he was uncovering in New Zealand, Morne started aYouTube channel which has proved very popular. His channel now has over 500,000 subscribers and some videos have over 1.5million views. The sharks tooth discovery was recently the subject of scientific paper and was donated to amuseum, like all his important finds. Now in his spare time he visits school to talk about New Zealand fossils. ‘‘Schools only have American or European dinosaurs to show pupils. I go there to educate children on what they can find in their own back yard.’’ Morne says when amateurs, like himself, find arare fossil they should preserve the site, record and GPS tag it, and call the major museums. Thankyou! Thankyou NorthCanterburyfor your continuedand generous support of Toot 4Tuckeragain this year. Alsothank youtoall of thewonderful volunteers foryourtime. Wishing you all avery Merry Christmas.
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