Routine yard work at the Syncrude Mildred Lake site has led to the discovery of a fossil that is believed to be at least 100 million years old. Paleontologists have identified the fossil as a coiled marine animal called an ammonite, an extinct coiled marine animal that died around the same time as the dinosaurs. Article content

Lauren Sayers, a vegetation management technician, noticed the fossilized cephalopod’s gleam on July 7 among a clay wall during routine weed control north of Fort McMurray. Article content

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“It caught my eye. I saw something a little bit shiny and so I looked and thought, ‘Oh, that’s cool, that’s a shell,'” Sayers said in a blog post on Suncor’s website. “It was just sitting there so perfectly, ready to be seen I guess.”

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