Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Miguasha National Park' has mentioned 'Fossil' in the following places:
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| 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. | WIKI |
| It is also sometimes referred to on fossil specimens as 'Scaumenac Bay' or 'Scaumenac Bay P.Q.' | WIKI |
| Miguasha National Park (Quxc3xa9bec): outcrop of the Devonian beds that are rich in fossil fish. | WIKI |
| Bothriolepis, a fossil antiarch placoderm found at this site. | WIKI |
| The museum's collection includes over 9,000 specimens of fossil fish and plants. | WIKI |
| Five of the six main fossil fish groups from this period (dating from 370 million years ago) can be found here. | WIKI |
| A great quantity of some of the best-preserved fossil specimens of lobe-finned fish, ancestors to the tetrapods (believed to be the first four-legged air-breathing terrestrial vertebrates), were found here. | WIKI |
| The fossil site was discovered in 1842, by Abraham Gesner (1797xe2x80x931864), a geologist and medical doctor, and a pioneer in the petroleum industry. | WIKI |
| There was a rumour in the 1970s that some Americans were seeking to purchase the land containing the fossil deposits. | WIKI |
| Located in Canada, on the east coast of Quebec, Miguasha National Park protects and presents the Escuminac Formation, a rock formation with a rich fossil heritage recognized for the large number of exceptionally well-preserved fossil specimens it contains which are representative of the Devonian period. | UNESCO |
| The fish, invertebrate and plant fossils at Miguasha bear witness to life as it existed on Earth 370 million years ago.Criterion (viii): Miguasha National Park is the most outstanding fossil site in the world from the standpoint of its representation of vertebrate life and its illustration of the Devonian period known as the Age of Fishes. | UNESCO |
| The site is of paramount importance because it has the largest number and the best-preserved fossil specimens in the world of sarcopterygian fish, which gave rise to the first four-legged, air-breathing terrestrial vertebratesxe2x80x94the tetrapods. | UNESCO |
| xc2xa0Covering an area of 87.3 hectares, the park preserves the integrity of the fossil cliff and the Escuminac Formation. | UNESCO |
| With some 13,000 specimens, the parkxe2x80x99s national fossil collection also demonstrates the integrity of this scientific heritage. | UNESCO |