I thank Dr Jessica Reeves,RMIT University,who helped with photography.Mr Ray Osborne,Heritage Victoria,and Mr Chris White,Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor(Group Governance),RMIT University,managed the legal paperwork,making extraction of the fossil both economically and mechanically feasible.This paper was presented orally at the Second International Symposium of Integrative Zoology at the Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China,on 10 December 2007.
A rare and almost complete barnacle fossil,previously described on the basis of two isolated shell fragments,wasrecently exposed in a limestone block on the outer wall of Melbourne’s Old Magistrates’Courts in Victor...