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Anticosti Island Ordovician-Silurian (QC)

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: Corals, brachiopods, nautiloids across the O-S boundary.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Ordovician / Silurian

Superb O-S boundary fossils, now World Heritage; restricted.

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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Anticosti Island fossil coast12 km away · Fossil site
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Gaspe Peninsula Coast, Quebec129 km away · Gem locality
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Chandler pulp mill port on the Gaspe coast175 km away · Tidal foreshore
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