Brule (English: /bruːl/)[1] is a rural community located in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.[2]
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Located on Amet Sound an embayment of the Northumberland Strait 6 kilometres east of the village of Tatamagouche near the county boundary, the community is situated on the southern shore of Brule Harbour opposite Brule Point.
Fossils
editBrule was the site of numerous fossil discoveries dating to 290 mya, in the Early Permian Period. Examples of these finds are now housed at the Creamery Square Heritage Centre in nearby Tatamagouche.[3]
The Brule fossil forest is composed of the ancient tree species: Walchia sp. The forest contains fallen logs, as well as about 90 in-situ-(standing) tree trunks, and leaflets or branch fossils. The 'Brule Forest' is the only example of standing trees, or in-situ tree-trunks of Walchia. Four-footed, tetrapod animal fossil trackways are also found in the fossil rich rocks.[4]
See also
edit- Walchia
- Mistaken Point, older fossils in Newfoundland and Labrador
References
edit- ^ The Canadian Press (2017), The Canadian Press Stylebook (18th ed.), Toronto: The Canadian Press
- ^ "Brule". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
- ^ "Brule Fossils". Creamery Square Heritage Centre. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
- ^ Van Allen, Howard E.K.; Calder, John H.; Hunt, Adrian P. (2005). "The trackway record of a tetrapod community in a Walchian conifer forest from the permo-carboniferous of Nova Scotia". Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. 30. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: 322. Retrieved October 30, 2021.