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The Devonian: Age of Fishes

• In search of our origins
  • Records of past life
    • The notion of geologic time
    • The history of the Devonian System
  • Witnesses to evolution
  • A lost world
    • Tectonic context
    • Paleogeography
    • Climate
    • A Devonian day
  • Life in crisis
    • The Late Devonian extinction event
• The plant world
  • The conquest of land
  • The first forests
  • The plants of Miguasha
    • Protobarinophyton
    • Archaeopteris
    • Spermasporites
    • Spores by the millions
• The animal world
  • Life in the sea
  • The diversification of fish
  • Toward the first tetrapods
  • The animals of Miguasha
    • A window through time
      • Representativity
      • Fossil quality
      • Specimens by the thousands
    • The food chain
      • Of predators and prey
      • Stomach contents
      • Coprolites
    • Invertebrates
      • The aquatic environment
        • Asmusia
        • Pterygotus
        • Segmented worms
        • Trace fossils
      • Land-based communities
        • Zanclodesmus
        • Petaloscorpio
    • Vertebrates
      • Jawless fish
        • Anaspids
          • Endeiolepis
          • Euphanerops
        • Osteostracans
          • Escuminaspis
          • Levesquaspis
      • Jawed fish
        • Placoderms
          • Antiarchs
            • Bothriolepis
          • Arthrodires
            • Plourdosteus
        • Acanthodians
          • Triazeugacanthus
          • Homalacanthus
          • Diplacanthus
        • Actinopterygians
          • Cheirolepis
        • Sarcopterygians
          • Actinistians
            • Miguashaia
          • Porolepiforms
            • Holoptychius
            • Quebecius
          • Dipnoi
            • Scaumenacia
            • Fleurantia
          • Osteolepiforms
            • Callistiopterus
            • Eusthenopteron
          • Elpistostegalians
            • Elpistostege

Miguasha: A story written in stone

• The Gaspé Peninsula: A world of oceans and mountains
  • The birth of the Appalachians
  • The closing of an ocean
  • A sea of fossils
  • Faunal realms
  • Devonian lands in the Gaspé Peninsula
• The Miguasha Group
  • The Fleurant Formation
  • The Escuminac Formation
    • Geological characteristics
    • Localization systems
    • Biostratigraphy
    • An ancient estuary
    • An environment of exceptional preservation
• Of cliffs and men
  • The Seigniory of Shoolbred
  • A World Heritage Site
  • Miguasha fossils around the world
  • The geology craze of the 19th century
  • The first discoveries
  • Scientists come to Miguasha
  • Links to Scotland
  • Local fossil hunters
  • Erik Jarvik and the Prince of Miguasha
  • The birth of the Miguasha project
  • The 1991 International Symposium
• Le Parc national de Miguasha
  • Protecting a unique heritage
  • Fossil digs and research
  • The on-site museum