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Fortune Head

Map of Newfoundland. Reserve is on bottom right-hand side of map, on the long peninsula pointing towards the island of St. Pierre.
Delegates from the Ichnia 2012 conference inspect the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary at Fortune Head Ecological Reserve. The boundary is defined on the appearance of the complex, vertical trace fossil Treptichnus pedum

Fortune Head is a headland about 1.6 km (0.99 mi) from the town of Fortune on the Burin Peninsula, southeastern Newfoundland.

A 140 m (460 ft) thick section of rock along its cliffs is the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP). It represents the boundary between the Precambrian era and the Cambrian period, 541 million years ago. Because of its accessibility (easy to get at) and many fossils, Fortune Head was selected in 1992 over similar rock sections in Siberia, Russia, and Meischucum, China.[1]

  1. ↑ "Fortune Head Ecological Reserve". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2006-03-21.

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