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Manitoba
Garson Tyndall stone quarries
Fossil site Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: large cephalopods, corals, gastropods, receptaculitids in cut stone.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Ordovician mottled limestone quarried since 1895, packed with receptaculitids, cephalopods and corals
Tyndall stone fossils are documented in Manitoba geology and museum literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
active quarry operations
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