Mistaken Point

Mistaken Point skrevs in på UNESCO:s världsarvslista 2016 som naturarv i Canada. Platsen hör till regionen Europe and North America.

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UNESCOThis fossil site is located at the south-eastern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in eastern Canada. It consists of a narrow, 17 km-long strip of rugged coastal cliffs. Of deep marine origin, these cliffs date to the Ediacaran Period (580-560 million years ago), representing the oldest known assemblages of large fossils anywhere. These fossils illustrate a watershed in the history of life on earth: the appearance of large, biologically complex organisms, after almost three billion years of micro-dominated evolution.