“Nowhere else has our timestamp. If you look at Drumheller, for example, it’s just one level. What really makes us unique is that we have 450 million years to today,” said Conlin. Mayor Keith Bertrand says British Columbia would greatly benefit from legislation to protect prehistoric finds, strengthening the work done by paleontologists. “There is no provincial legislation which protects those fossils. Every year they go out and have to uncover what they’ve accomplished last year and start the work again. It’s quite a delaying process,” Betrand said, noting Tumbler Ridge has independently stored fossils on behalf of the province for 20 years.