 February 17, 2006 - Fredericton
Wellness, Culture and Sport
The following is the sixth in a series of six feature articles prepared for Heritage Week, Feb. 13 - 20, 2006. Entitled Spotlight on Natural Heritage, the series is a reflection of the people, landscape and museum collections of New Brunswick's past.
Alethopteris lancifolia, (300 million years old). Between 1860 and 1863, Fred Hartt, along with his father and friends, collected nearly 8000 fossils from within the Cambrian and Devonian rock formations of “Fern Ledges” in west Saint John. They found fossilized plants, snails and insects, as well as fossil footprints of reptiles and amphibians. (New Brunswick Museum, NBMG 3397).
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