NATIONAL TRUST OF AUSTRALIA Heritage in Trust
(ACT)
February 2016
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Moulds of Silurian marine fossils - brachiopods (lampshells), corals and trilobites - from the Woolshed Creek heritage-listed site near Canberra Airport; centimetre scale bar. Top left – a large (seaweed-like) halysitid coral (chain coral); top right - pygidium (tail shield) of a small encrinurid trilobite. (Photo – D. Finlayson)
The Woolshed Creek Fossil Site – Canberra’s heritage from long, long ago The capital of Australia is sometimes referred to as a “City The fossilised remains of one particular species can in the Landscape” after the design concepts of Walter now be seen at the newly rehabilitated Woolshed Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin were accepted to Creek fossil site near Canberra Airport. blend the urban environment of the nation’s capital into Cont p2 the hills and ridges along the Molonglo River. The evolution of these hills and ridges started over 450 millions of years Inside ago when the Canberra region was located on the edge of From the President p6 the Gondwana Supercontinent. In those times most life on Heritage Diary p9 Earth was in the seas and oceans and the Canberra area was on a shallow marine margin with mud being eroded Huntly Gardens Open Day – a very special event p11 from a series of island arc volcanoes into a warm shallow Heritage Festival p12 sea near the equator, ideal living conditions for marine National History challenge- Young Historian of the invertebrates called brachiopods to grow and thrive. The year – An interview with Ineka Voigt p25 Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington estimates that 80% of all Silurian invertebrate species ANU – 70 years on p28 Heritage in Trust www.nationaltrust.org.au Page 1 (419-443 million years ago) were brachiopods.