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Index fossils must have a short vertical range, wide geographic distribution and rapid evolutionary trends. Another term, "zone fossil", is used when the fossil has all the characters stated above except wide geographical distribution; thus, they correlate the surrounding rock to a biozone rather than a specific time period.
Pages in category "Fossils of Canada" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 215 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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This is a list of stratigraphic units in Ontario bearing fossils. Group or formation Period ... Canada: Dyer Bay Formation: Silurian:
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Oppel's zones are named after a particular distinctive fossil species, called an index fossil. Index fossils are one of the species from the assemblage of species that characterize the zone. Biostratigraphy uses zones for the most fundamental unit of measurement. The thickness and range of these zones can be a few meters, up to hundreds of meters.
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.
The McAbee Fossil Beds is a Heritage Site that protects an Eocene Epoch fossil locality east of Cache Creek, British Columbia, Canada, just north of and visible from Provincial Highway 97 / the Trans-Canada Highway . The McAbee Fossil Beds, comprising 548.23 hectares (1,354.7 acres), were officially designated a Provincial Heritage Site under ...