MILLER MUSEUM - INVITATION
Opening of New Ediacaran Display
You are invited to the opening of the display of a cast of the Mistaken Point Ediacaran fossils in the Miller Museum at 7:00 on Thursday January 27th. The evening will start in Miller 105, with introductory remarks and a short video about the importance of the Mistaken Point fossils and Prof. Guy Narbonne's scientific work on them. We will then move to the Museum where wine and cheese will be served and the display unveiled. A special video showing will follow. |
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Background
Mistaken Point in eastern Newfoundland contains the oldest fossil assemblage of large, complex organisms, commonly known as the Ediacara biota, known anywhere on Earth. The Mistaken Point organisms lived at the bottom of a deep ocean, and were preserved in place when they were suddenly covered with ash from a nearby volcanic eruption 565 million years ago to produce bedding surfaces strewn with hundreds to thousands of bizarre, fractal fossils called rangeomorphs. In 2009 the main bedding planewas cast in a joint undertaking by Parks and Natural Areas of Newfoundland and Labrador, The Royal Ontario Museum, Queen's University, Oxford University, and the Johnson GeoCentre to preserve a replica of this surface for all time. A 4 metre-square section of this cast is now on display in the MIller Museum of Geology along with a 1 square metre reconstruction of the actual Ediacaran sea floor 565 million years ago.
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