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Fossils

Cover of the "What building stones tell" pamphletBuilding stones and fossils of downtown Montreal

Palaeontologists seek out fossils in the most remote places on Earth, but you can find them right here in downtown Montreal 鈥� without even picking up a shovel. Built from a variety of local and imported stone, the city鈥檚 churches, offices听and apartment buildings harbour a veritable compendium of fossils and geological specimens. Our Building Stones and Fossils guide will help you track them down.

NEW! Free downloadable 听(in English). This GIS Storymap gives you a virtual tour of seven sites around 苹果淫院 downtown campus that are loaded with fossils.听听听

Twenty fossil sites near Montreal

Go fossil hunting听on the island of Montreal at one of these easy-to-reach sites.

The Gault reserveThe Gault Nature Reserve

A small site about the Gault Nature Reserve at听Mont St-Hilaire with information about its history, geology and the animals and plants that can be found on it.

The Ordovician dioramaOrdovician life and fossils

Learn more about the creatures that lived in the warm seas of the Ordovician that covered Montreal almost half a billion years ago and the fossils that they left.

The Museum's Ordovician diorama provides more information about this time period.

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