"The palaeontological site of Miguasha National Park, in south-eastern Quebec on the southern coast of the Gaspé peninsula, is considered to be the world's most outstanding illustration of the Devonian Period known as the 'Age of Fishes'. Dating from 370 million years ago, the Upper Devonian Escuminac Formation represented here contains five of the six fossil fish groups associated with this period. Its significance stems from the discovery there of the highest number and best-preserved fossil specimens of the lobe-finned fishes that gave rise to the first four-legged, air-breathing terrestrial vertebrates – the tetrapods."
米瓜莎公园
"米瓜莎古公园坐落在魁北克东南部加斯普半岛(the Gaspé peninsula)南部的海岸上，是一处古生物学遗址，被认为是世界上关于泥盆纪“鱼类时代”(Age of Fishes)最著名的化石遗址。晚泥盆世的鱼化石共有六种，这里地层中就有五种，可追溯到3.7亿年前。公园的重要性在于这里有大量保存完好的鱼石螈的化石标本。鱼石螈是第一种进化为四条腿、呼吸空气的陆地脊椎动物四足动物。"
Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/686
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