Miguasha National Park
Parc provincial de Miguasha | |
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Nearest city | Dalhousie, New Brunswick |
Coordinates | 48°06′38″N 66°22′10″W / 48.11056°N 66.36944°W |
Area | 87,3 ha |
Established | 6 February 1985 |
Governing body | SEPAQ |
Type | Natural |
Criteria | viii |
Designated | 1999 (23rd session) |
Reference no. | 686rev |
Region | Europe and North America |
Miguasha Provincial Park (French: Parc national de Miguasha) is a protected area near Carleton-sur-Mer on the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec in Canada. Created in 1985 by the Government of Quebec, Miguasha was designated a World Heritage Site in 1999 in recognition of its wealth of fossils, which display a crucial time during the evolution of life on Earth. Other names for this site are the Miguasha Fossil Site, the Bay of Escuminac Fossil Site, the Upper Devonian Escuminac Formation, and the Hugh-Miller Cliffs. It is also sometimes referred to on fossil specimens as 'Scaumenac Bay' or 'Scaumenac Bay P.Q.'
Miguasha Natural History Museum
The park's museum features exhibits about the fossils and paleontology of the park. The museum's collection includes over 9,000 specimens of
Geology
The coastal cliffs are
Palaeontological significance
Some of the fish, fauna, and spore fossils found at Miguasha are rare and ancient species. For example,
History
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See also
- List of fossil sites (with link directory)
References
- ^ "Miguasha National Park and Natural History Museum (Sépaq) | Gaspesian Heritage WebMagazine".
- ^ As per reference, but possibly they meant 'seed plant'.
- ^ UNESCO citation 686