US And Canadian Fossil Sites -- Data for NOVA SCOTIA

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Location	County	State/Province	Directions,Notes	Age	Formation	Fossils	Comments	Lat-Long
-	-	NS	Mississippian lakebed and near shore deposits from Nova Scotia. Trace Fossils	Mississippian	Horton Bluff	?	NS0007		\|	,
Cape Breton Island	-	NS		Cambrian		Trilobites	NS0001		\|	,
Cape Breton Island	-	NS		Carboniferous		Good plant fossils	NS0002		\|	,
Cape Breton Island	-	NS		Mississippian	Fisset Brook	Plant Fossils	NS0003		\|	,
Central Mainland Nova Scotia	-	NS		Mississippian Upper	Kennetcook\|Herbert River Limestones	Bioherms	NS0004		\|	,
Nova Scotia	-	NS		Cretaceous		Lignitic coals	NS0005		\|	,
Nova Scotia	-	NS		Jurassic	Scots Bay	fossils,dinosaur tracks	NS0006		\|	,
Bear River	Annapolis	NS				fossils	NS0008		\|	,
Bear River	Annapolis	NS				fossils	NS0009		\|	,
Annapolis Valley	Annapolis\|Kings	NS		Triassic-Jurassic	Fundy Group	Non-marine fossils	NS0010		\|	,
Antigonish	Antigonish	NS	At McAras Brook	Devonian Lower	Knoydart	Fossil fish-Pteraspis	NS0011		\|	,
Arisaig	Antigonish	NS		Silurian		Acritarchs	NS0012		\|	,
Arisaig	Antigonish	NS		Silurian		Gastropods	NS0013		\|	,
Arisaig	Antigonish	NS		Silurian	Ross Brook	?	NS0014		\|	,
Arisaig	Antigonish	NS		Silurian	Stonehouse	trilobite fragments	NS0015		\|	,
Arisaig	Antigonish	NS		Silurian	Stonehouse	trilobite fragments Cape George,,NS,-- -- Wilkie Brook -- Fresh water algal reef	NS0016		\|	,
Arisaig	Antigonish	NS		Silurian	Stonehouse\|Moydart	trilobites	NS0017		\|	,
Arisaig	Antigonish	NS	Classic Silurian section in Sea Cliffs at Provincial Park. Subset of 47 million year Paleozoic section from Arisaig Point to McAras Brook	Silurian		Brachiopods,bivalves,gastropods,cephalopods,trilobites,graptolites,crinoids,tentaculites	NS0018		\|	,
Cape George	Antigonish	NS		Carboniferous	Wilkie Brook	Fresh water algal reef	NS0019	http://www.gov.ns.ca/NATR/meb/tgi/SUM2001/SUM2001B.HTM	\|	,
Cape George	Antigonish	NS		Devonian	McAras Brook	Ichnofossils: Beaconites	NS0020		\|	,
Sydney Coalfield	Antigonish	NS	Along coast of Cape Breton Is from Cape Dauphin east to Morien Bay	Carboniferous		Plants-Sigillaria,Lepidodendron,Calamites,Stigmaria,etc	NS0021		\|	,
-	Cape Breton	NS	At Geodetic Survey Bench Mark 86N241	Cambrian Lower	Cuslett	Halkieria;Chancelloria;Eccentrotheca;Sunnaginia;Brachiopods-Micromitra,Paterina;Coleoloides;Hyolithids-Hyolithellus,Torellella	NS0028		\|	,
Cap Rouge	Cape Breton	NS	in Mississippian shales	Mississippian	Horton Bluff	paleoniscoid fish scales	NS0022		\|	,
Catalone	Cape Breton	NS		Cambrian Lower	Fosters Point	Brachiopods -- Micromitra,Obolus,Paterina (20)	NS0023		\|	,
Catalone River	Cape Breton	NS		Cambrian Lower	Brigus	trilobites	NS0024		\|	,
Florence	Cape Breton	NS	Canada in Pennsylvanian shales	Pennsylvanian		Plants - Annularia,Neuropteris	NS0025		\|	,
Point Edward	Cape Breton	NS	6.4km NW of Sydney between Point Edward and Keating Cove	Mississippian	Point Edward	vertebrates-Spathicephalus	NS0026		\|	,
Table Head	Cape Breton	NS		Pennsylvanian	Sydney Coalfield	plants,arthropods,rarely fish	NS0027		\|	,
Brule	Colchester	NS		Pennsylvanian-Permian		trackways	NS0029		\|	,
Brule	Colchester	NS	http://www.tata.ns.ca/Brule_Fossils.html	Pennsylvanian-Permian		trackways,plants	NS0030		\|	,
Tatamagouche	Colchester	NS				fossil trackways displayed	NS0031		\|	,
Diligent River	Cumberland	NS		Pennsylvanian		trackways,plants	NS0032		\|	,
Joggins	Cumberland	NS		Pennsylvanian		Amphibians - Eosaurus,Microsaurs,Limnoscelids,Labyrinthodonts,	NS0033		\|	,
Joggins	Cumberland	NS		Pennsylvanian		vertebrates-Dendrerpeton,Dendryazouza,Hyperpeton	NS0034		\|	,
Joggins	Cumberland	NS		Pennsylvanian-later		amphibians,etc.	NS0035		\|	,
Joggins	Cumberland	NS	from West Ragged Reef to Minudie	Pennsylvanian	Joggins	Amphibians,bivalves,reptiles,coal,plants,tracks	NS0036		\|	,
Joggins	Cumberland	NS	in 4000 meters of	Pennsylvanian-Permian	Joggins	Plants - Lepidodendron,Sigillaria; Early Tetrapods --Dendrerpeton	NS0037		\|	,
Lower Cove	Cumberland	NS	On Chignecto Bay in sea cliffs in a good carboniferous section	Carboniferous	Little River	-		http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-143773110.html	\|	,
Parrsboro	Cumberland	NS		Triassic-Jurassic	McCoy Brook	Trackways,reptile remains	NS0038		\|	,
Parrsboro	Cumberland	NS	W shore of Parrsboro Inlet. S of Whitehall Creek and 100m N of small point N of Pinky's Point	Pennsylvanian	Parrsboro	amphibians-Haplolepis,tracks	NS0039		\|	,
S. Joggins	Cumberland	NS		Pennsylvanian		plant Calamites	NS0040		\|	,
East Milford	Halifax	NS	In a gypsum mine	Pleistocene		mastodon,beaver,frog bones,freshwater pelecypod and gastropods	NS0041		\|	,
Blue Beach	Hants	NS		Mississippian	Horton Bluff	Acanthoid trials	NS0042		\|	,
Blue Beach	Hants	NS	Acanthoid trials			?	NS0043		\|	,
Burncote Lighthouse	Hants	NS		Triassic	Wolfville	Reptile bones-Hesperosuchus	NS0052		\|	,
Grand Etang	Inverness	NS	Along shore to S	Mississippian	Pomquet	vertebrates-Sagenodus	NS0045		\|	,
Port Hood	Inverness	NS	in Pennsylvanian	Pennsylvanian		very early reptiles: Romeriscus	NS0046		\|	,
Evangeline Beach	Kings	NS	Canteen site	Triassic	Wolfville	Reptile bones	NS0053		\|	,
Evangeline Beach	Kings	NS	E end of beach	Triassic	Wolfville	Reptile bones	NS0054		\|	,
Horton Bluff	Kings	NS		Mississippian	Horton Bluff	vertebrates,trace fossils,	NS0049		\|	,
Pictou	Pictou	NS		Devonian?		Fossils	NS0050		\|	,

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