Miguasha National Park
The palaeontological site of Miguasha National Park, in
south-eastern Quebec on the southern coast of the GaspΓ© peninsula, is
considered to be the world's most outstanding illustration of the
Devonian Period known as the 'Age of Fishes'. Dating from 370 million
years ago, the Upper Devonian Escuminac Formation represented here
contains five of the six fossil fish groups associated with this period.
Its significance stems from the discovery there of the highest number
and best-preserved fossil specimens of the lobe-finned fishes that gave
rise to the first four-legged, air-breathing terrestrial vertebrates –
the tetrapods.