New Zealand Seashore

DSC_2382 Black brachiopod, or papa pouri (Notosaria nigricans) ventral view of empty shell washed up on reef. Remarkably, this species has survived, unchanged, on shallow reefs around New Zealand for approx 18.7 million years (since the Miocene!). Cat's Eye Point, Kakanui *

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DSC_2382 Black brachiopod, or papa pouri (Notosaria nigricans) ventral view of empty shell washed up on reef. Remarkably, this species has survived, unchanged, on shallow reefs around New Zealand for approx 18.7 million years (since the Miocene!). Cat's Eye Point, Kakanui *

DSC 2382 Black brachiopod papa pouri Notosaria nigricans ribbed ventral living fossil 18.7 million years miocene empty shell Cat's Eye Point Kakanui