Geological formation, Paleontology

Atapuerca
The Archaeological Site of Atapuerca is the finding place of fossils and stone tools of the earliest known hominids in Europe, dating to between 780,000 and 1 million years ago.
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Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
Riversleigh and the Naracoorte caves are Australia's most renowned fossil sites. They are a superb illustration of the key stages of the isolated evolution of Australia's unique fauna.
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Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks are a striking mountain landscape, that includes a full range of glaciation features and harbours the renowned Burgess Shale fossil site.
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Dinosaur Provincial Park
Dinosaur Provincial Park protects the area where dinosaurs once hunted and mated - and ultimately met their demise, leaving an amazingly rich fossil and bone record.
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Fossil Hominid Sites
The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and Environs are part what is called The Cradle of Humankind.
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Ischigualasto / Talampaya
The Ischigualasto and Talampaya Natural Parks were established to protect geological formations of the Triassic Period.
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Joggins Fossil Cliffs
The Joggins Fossil Cliffs is famous for its record of fossils dating to the Pennsylvanian "Coal Age" of earth history, approximately 310 million years ago.
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Lower Valley of the Awash
The valley of the Awash river is one of the most important palaeontological sites on the African continent.
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Lower Valley of the Omo
The Lower Valley of the Omo River is a prehistoric site where many hominid fossils have been found. They are of fundamental importance in the study of human evolution.
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Messel Pit
The Messel Pit is a disused quarry, in an ancient lake bed, in which bituminous shale was mined. It has been named a WHS because it wealth of fossils (outstandingly preserved), the remains of organisms from the middle Eocene strata dating back 50 million years.
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Miguasha Park
Miguasha National Park is considered to be the world's greatest palaeontological record of fossils from the Devonian Period, known as the 'Age of Fishes'.
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Monte San Giorgio
Monte San Giorgio is a mountain at Lake Lugano known for its marine fossils from the Mid Triassic Period.
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Peking Man Site
Over 500.000 years ago, the caves in this limestone area were inhabited by early hominids. They stayed for the next 300.
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Sangiran Early Man Site
The Sangiran Early Man Site is one of the key sites for the study of human evolution. It is an archaeological excavation site at the island of Java.
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Wadi Al-Hitan
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) is a remote valley 150 km southwest of Cairo where hundreds of fossil whale skeletons are being exposed by the wind.
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Willandra Lakes Region
The Willandra Lakes Region is an area of dry lakebeds rich in fossils. Aboriginees lived, fished, hunted, and occasionally were buried near the lakes.
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