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Quebec
Anticosti Island fossil coast
Fossil site Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: viewing of brachiopod and coral pavements.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Ordovician-Silurian boundary strata of world importance ringing the island
UNESCO-listed sequence, documented exhaustively by paleontologists.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
remote, limited access
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