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Long Point Group

geologic group in Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ17510351 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Long Point Group is a geologic group in Newfoundland and Labrador. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ediacaran period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Newfoundland and Labrador

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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The public source identifies “Long Point Group” as geologic group in Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Long, Point and Group.

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This entry incorporates text from “Long Point Group” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.