Mistaken Point, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve is a small headland on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada, which contains one of the most diverse and well-preserved collections of Precambrian fossils known. The site was first discovered in 1967 by S.B. Misra. The site became quickly recognized in the mid 1980's as a important find containing probably the oldest metazoan fossils in North America and the most ancient deep-water marine fossils in the world. In 1987 a 5 kilometer stretch of coastline was declared an ecological reserve. Studies have shown that the Mistaken Point biota represents the oldest Ediacaran fossils known anywhere, in fact the oldest, largest and architecturally complex organisms in Earth history.^[1]

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Prolific Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip include a reference to Mistaken Point, Newfoundland in "Fly", the fourth track on their 2006 album World Container. The same track also includes a reference to Moonbeam, Ontario.