The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia, have been described as the coal age Galápagos and are the world reference site for the coal age. Their complete and accessible fossil-bearing rock exposures provide the best evidence known of the iconic features of the Pennsylvanian/ Carboniferous period of Earth History. The site bears witness to the first reptiles in Earth history, which are the earliest representatives of the amniotes, a group of animals that includes reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals. Upright fossil trees are preserved at a series of levels in the cliffs together with animal, plant and trace fossils that provide environmental context and enable a complete reconstruction to be made of the extensive fossil forests that dominated land at this time, and are now the source of most of the world’s coal deposits.
Unesco: Joggins Fossil Cliffs
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Date: Nov 18
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