New 1.8 Ga microfossils at Thunder Bay, Canada

The infamous Gunflint Chert, from which microfossil research had its inception thanks to the works of Stanley Tyler, Elso Barghoorn, and Preston Cloud, yields one of the most beautiful and plentiful Lagerstätte of the Proterozoic. What has received less attention are the shale dominated successions atop, which have not yet been prospected for microfossils until now…

Check out some of our new material from the 1.83 Ga Rove Formation of the Animikie Group, Thunder Bay down below!