Mistaken Point

More than 10,000 fossil impressions, ranging from a few centimetres to nearly 2 metres in length, are visible along the coastline of Mistaken Point.

Mistaken Point

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This fossil site is located at the south-eastern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in eastern Canada. It consists of a narrow, 17 km-long strip of rugged coastal cliffs. Of deep marine origin, these cliffs date to the Ediacaran Period (580-560 million years ago), representing the oldest known assemblages of large fossils anywhere. These fossils illustrate a watershed in the history of life on earth: the appearance of large, biologically complex organisms, after almost three billion years of micro-dominated evolution. - in: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1497