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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Joggins Fossil Cliffs' has mentioned 'Fossils' in the following places:
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| Joggins has been known for its fossils since the early 19th century. | WIKI |
| The fossils are found in the exposed Pennsylvanian coal seams in the cliffs that overlook the shore. | WIKI |
| The fossils consist mainly of ferns, prehistoric trees and early sea life. | WIKI |
| The daily high tide erodes the cliff, the stone fossils fall out of the coal and are left on the shore when the tide recedes. | WIKI |
| Fossils have also been found in the area deep shaft mines and in drilling core samples hundreds of feet down. | WIKI |
| Joggins is one of the easiest places in the world to find early Pennsylvanian coal fossils. | WIKI |
| The Joggins Fossil Centre is the museum built on the fossil cliff to display the fossils. | WIKI |
| Joggins is famous for its record of fossils from a rainforest ecosystem approximately 310 million years ago, dating to the Pennsylvanian "Coal Age" during the Late Carboniferous Period. | WIKI |
| In his Elements of Geology (1871), Lyell proclaimed the Joggins exposure of Coal Age rocks and fossils to be "the finest example in the world". | WIKI |
| In 1852 Lyell and Dawson made a celebrated discovery of tetrapod fossils entombed within an upright tree at Coal Mine Point. | WIKI |
| Subsequent investigations by Dawson led to the discovery of one of the most important fossils in the history of science, Hylonomus lyelli, which remains the earliest known sauropsid (reptile) in the history of life, but not oldest known amniote, the group that includes all vertebrates that can reproduce out of water. | WIKI |
| In addition to individual fossils, the Joggins Fossil Cliffs is of interest because it represents a time in Earth's history when a tropical rainforest covered Nova Scotia. | WIKI |
| For example, Don Reid, a long-time resident of Joggins, donated his entire collection of Joggins fossils to the Joggins Fossil Institute. | WIKI |
| Upright fossil trees are preserved at a series of levels in the cliffs together with animal, plant and trace fossils that provide environmental context and enable a complete reconstruction to be made of the extensive fossil forests that dominated land at this time, and are now the source of most of the worldxe2x80x99s coal deposits. | UNESCO |