Ediacarian Excavation

[David Dalton]

Recently a treasure trove of fossils was discovered in
the Newfoundland community of Upper Island Cove.
It is slightly younger than the famous Mistaken Point
discovery but the fossils are higher relief and more
closely/densely spaced.

Here is an article on the discovery, from Memorial University’s
Gazette newspaper:

https://gazette.mun.ca/research/ediacaran-excavation/

Since it is on private land it probably won’t be made available
for visitation by the public, but there are plans to make
a replica available eventually. But paleontologists can probably
make arrangements with Duncan McIlroy, whose email
is give in the article, if they wish to visit the site.

[David Dalton]

Post by David Dalton
Recently a treasure trove of fossils was discovered in
the Newfoundland community of Upper Island Cove.
It is slightly younger than the famous Mistaken Point
discovery but the fossils are higher relief and more
closely/densely spaced.
Here is an article on the discovery, from Memorial University’s
https://gazette.mun.ca/research/ediacaran-excavation/
Since it is on private land it probably won’t be made available
for visitation by the public, but there are plans to make
a replica available eventually. But paleontologists can probably
make arrangements with Duncan McIlroy, whose email
is give in the article, if they wish to visit the site.

On talk.origins there was a question as to whether those
studying the site are sufficiently professional, and I replied:

The lead investigator is Duncan McIlroy, who is Research Professor
in paleontology in The Department of Earth Sciences at Memorial
University, the largest university in Canada east of Montreal, and
he has six current graduate students (two M.Sc. candidates and
four Ph.D. candidates), according to his departmental web page, which is
https://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/our-people/faculty/dr-duncan-mcilroy/ .