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Mistaken Point’s 560-million-year-old fossils

Ediacaran fossils at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, photographed in 2009.
Ediacaran fossils at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, photographed in 2009. Ediacaran fossils Mistaken Point Newfoundland · Alicejmichel · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Mistaken Point, on the southeastern tip of Newfoundland, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016. Its fossils, 580 to 560 million years old, include the world’s oldest-known examples of large, architecturally complex organisms.

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The fossil site and its significance, not visitor access rules for the ecological reserve.

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Parks Canada (World Heritage Sites in Canada)

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