🦴 Miguasha National Park
UNESCO World Heritage Site with Devonian-era fossil beds on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula
📌 Fast Facts
- Location: Southern coast of the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, Canada
- UNESCO World Heritage Site designation: 1999
- Geological period: Devonian Period, approximately 370 million years ago
- Primary feature: Extensive fossil beds containing thousands of well-preserved specimens from the "Age of Fishes"
Miguasha National Park preserves one of North America's most significant paleontological sites, located on the Gaspé Peninsula in southern Quebec. The park's cliffs and fossil beds document life during the Devonian Period, a critical interval in Earth's evolutionary history when fish species dominated aquatic ecosystems. The site has yielded thousands of fossils, including representatives of five of the six major groups of Devonian fish, making it an essential reference for understanding ...