Friday 3 February 2017

Miguasha National Park

This site has a great record of fossils of fish and plants, some of them dating from 370 million years ago

Miguasha National Park
This postcard was sent by Shinta

Located in Canada, on the east coast of Quebec, Miguasha National Park protects and presents the Escuminac Formation, a rock formation with a rich fossil heritage recognized for the large number of exceptionally well-preserved fossil specimens it contains which are representative of the Devonian period. The fish, invertebrate and plant fossils at Miguasha bear witness to life as it existed on Earth 370 million years ago. - in: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/686

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