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FOSSIL SPECIMENS FOUND IN CANADA

Canada has some of the oldest geological structures in the world. A large part of its rock formations

belong to the Precambrian Period (4.6 billion years to 543 million years ago), and the country is rich in
fossil beds.
One of the dominion's most important fossil beds is the world-famous Burgess Shale Formation. The
fossil bed in Burgess Shale is regarded as one of the most significant paleontological discoveries of our

time. Research has shown that when the sediments from which fossils are obtained were being laid
down, this region lay close to the equator. At that time, the Burgess Shale area lay on the lower edge of the
North American continent.
The first fossils discovered were a number of invertebrate specimens found by the paleontologist

Charles Doolittle Walcott in the early 1900s. In fact, Burgess Shale is an area known for its invertebrate
fossils. Thanks to these specimens
more than 500 million years old, some
140 species that lived during the

Cambrian Period have been
identified. The characteristic of these
fossils is that they belong to many
different phyla and seem to have

emerged suddenly, with no forebears
in preceding strata. Evolutionist
sources admit that accounting for
these fossil discoveries is impossible

in terms of the theory of evolution.
Another major fossil field in
Canada lies in Miguasha Park. This
area, rich in fossil specimens, lies on

the Gaspé Peninsula. Fossils were

Fossil researches in the Burgess Shale

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