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Fortune Head GSSP, Newfoundland

The headland on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland whose exposed section carries the golden spike defining the base of the Cambrian, and therefore the base of the Phanerozoic — the largest…

47.1, -55.8 · approximate · boundary currently dated 538.8 ± 0.2 Ma; GSSP ratified 1992

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