The Protection Formation is a
geologic formation in
British Columbia. It preserves
fossils
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
dating back to the
Cretaceous period.
See also
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia
References
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Cretaceous British Columbia
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