The Devonian in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Paleontology and geology

As with earlier rocks, Devonian rocks are not exposed at the surface on Prince Edward Island. Information obtained from drill cores and by looking at Silurian-age rocks in nearby Nova Scotia tell us that PEI was part of the small paleocontinent called Avalonia. This paleocontinent lay closer to what are now Europe (the paleocontinent called Baltica) and Africa and South America (both part of the paleocontinent of Gondwana) that to what is now the North American continent (the paleocontinent called Laurentia). No Devonian fossils are known from Prince Edward Island.