Mistaken Point
World Heritage
Canada
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The fossil site is located at the southeastern tip of Newfoundland Island in eastern Canada. It consists of a 17-kilometer-long narrow, rugged coastal cliff. These cliffs originated from the deep sea and date back to the Ediacaran period (580 million to 560 million years ago), making them the oldest known collection of large fossils. The fossils illustrate a watershed in the history of life on Earth: the emergence of large, biologically complex organisms after nearly 3 billion years of evolution dominated by microorganisms.
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