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Alberta
Wally's Beach, St. Mary Reservoir
Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
FossilsAlso reported: horse, camel, bison, caribou, Clovis points.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Late Pleistocene
When the reservoir was drawn down in 1998, wind erosion exposed trackways, bones and stone tools dated to about 13,100 to 13,300 years ago; specimens are at the Royal Alberta Museum.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
strong wind, soft reservoir mud
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