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This genus is known in the fossil record of the Carboniferous period (age range: 353.8 to 311.45 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in Canada and United States. [2]
Fossils may be found either associated with a geological formation or at a single geographic site. ... Carboniferous: North America: Canada: Nova Scotia [Note 1]
The Carboniferous (/ ˌ k ɑːr b ə ˈ n ɪ f ər ə s / KAR-bə-NIF-ər-əs) [6] is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period 358.86 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 Ma.
An illustration of a Carboniferous forest. Fossils of Eoscorpius have been found in Canada, China, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [10] [12] [13] The genus lived from the Early Carboniferous to the Asselian age of the Early Permian.
Its fossils have been found primarily in the Joggins Formation of Eastern Canada and in Ireland. [5] [6] It lived during the Carboniferous [7] [8] and is said to be around 309–316 million years of age, corresponding to more specifically the Westphalian (stage) age. [9] Of terrestrial temnospondyl amphibians evolution, it represents the first ...
Sir William Logan, the first Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, found footprints from a tetrapod in 1841. It remains one of very few such outcrops in the world; the others are in Scotland. In recent decades, numerous tetrapod fossils dating from the earliest Carboniferous have been found.
Bell finally returned to Nova Scotia in 1926, and his research into Carboniferous plants would reveal that many of the species found in Atlantic Canada were also present in Western European deposits, providing evidence for the theory of continental drift. In 1944 Bell reconsidered his classification of the Joggins Formation, reclassifying it as ...
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years old ( middle Cambrian ), [ 4 ] it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.