Finding Trilobites on Anticosti Island

What makes the trilobite fossils on a remote island in Canada so important? Join paleontologist Melanie Hopkins as she and her team ford rivers on an island off the shores off Quebec, Canada, in search of traces of Earth’s first mass extinction on Anticosti Island.
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In August 2022, Museum Curator Melanie Hopkins and colleagues traveled to Anticosti Island in Quebec, which preserves unique fossil deposits that form a record of how marine invertebrate species, including trilobites, crinoids, and brachiopods, responded to the first mass extinction. Hopkins, who has been working in Anticosti since 2017, describes what clues these fossils may hold for future study. Watch to learn more!
The Constantine S. Niarchos expedition featured here was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

[@thelostone6981]

That is quite the classroom! It reminds me of stumbling across a trilobite in the mountains of northern Utah. There are some great dig sights in the desert, but to see one just laying there while was hiking was a thrill.

[@user-wy2iw5vy5u]

I found a crustatian and brought it to school in Ontario. They are in the bed rocks here as well.

[@thecrow6915]

Thank you for the information.. Mother Nature is amazing I'm sure there is still a lot to be discovered buried underneath..

[@amehak1922]

The most amazing thing about that period is that there weren't any land lifeforms yet.

[@katbat7437]

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[@TheFlameoftheWest]

450 million years. Wow

[@JohnWilliamson-mv3mq]

I seen one in the Pacific in a tide pool sitting on a rock at low tide there must be .more out there looked at everything on animals of sea wasn't sure at time but positive now

[@lemonfox3734]

I’d love to have this job

[@amelliamendel2227]

Great video, but up and down left and right are not synonymous with North South East and West.

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