Miguasha National Park
World Heritage
Canada
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The paleontological site of Miguacha National Park, located on the south shore of the Gaspé Peninsula in southeastern Quebec, is considered the world's most outstanding representative of the Devonian period, known as the "Age of Fishes". The Upper Devonian Eskouminak Formation represented here dates back 370 million years and contains five of the six fossil fish communities associated with this period. Its importance stems from the discovery there of the largest number and best-preserved fossil specimens of sarcopterygians, the origin of the first four-legged, air-breathing terrestrial vertebrates - tetrapods.
# Paleontological sites
# Quebec
# Devonian
# Fish Age
# Lobe-finned fish fossils
# The origin of tetrapods
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