What is Hunting Formation?
The '''Hunting Formation''' is a [[stratigraphy|stratigraphic]] unit on [[Somerset Island]] ([[Nunavut]]) in the far north of [[Canada]]. It includes [[fossils]] of simple [[eukaryotic]] [[algae]] that [[sexual reproduction|reproduced sexually]]. They date to the end of the [[Ectasian]] and start of the [[Stenian]] [[period (geology)|period]], about 1,200 million years ago.<ref>Essay Web: ''Mesoproterozoic era''. 2008. [http://essayweb.net/geology/timeline/mesoproterozoic.shtml] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829085241/http://essayweb.net/geology/timeline/mesoproterozoic.shtml |date=2011-08-29 }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Mesoproterozoic]]