The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation...
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a list of the biota of the Burgess Shale, a Cambrian lagerstätte located in Yoho National Park in Canada. The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit...
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The fossils of the Burgess Shale, like the Burgess Shale itself, are fossils that formed around 505 million years ago in the mid-Cambrian period. They...
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Anomalocaris (category Burgess Shale fossils)
(particularly the Burgess Shale) of British Columbia, Canada. The other named species A. daleyae is known from the somewhat older Emu Bay Shale of Australia...
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character to that of the Burgess Shale. While many are also preserved in a similar fashion to the Burgess Shale, the term "Burgess Shale-type fauna" covers...
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The Burgess Shale of British Columbia is famous for its exceptional preservation of mid-Cambrian organisms. Around 69 other sites have been discovered...
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Cambrian explosion (section Burgess Shale type faunas)
satisfactory answer. American paleontologist Charles Walcott, who studied the Burgess Shale fauna, proposed that an interval of time, the "Lipalian", was not represented...
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Field, British Columbia (section Burgess Shale)
42 years. CPR track workers in Field discovered the fossils of the Burgess Shale. Commonly called by the workers "the stone bugs", the first fossils...
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Charles Doolittle Walcott (section Burgess shale)
well-preserved fossils, including some of the oldest soft-part imprints, in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Charles Doolittle Walcott was born on March...
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Cambrian chordates (category Burgess Shale fossils)
chordate known is Pikaia gracilens, a lancelet-like animal from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada. The discoverer, Charles Doolittle Walcott...
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fieldensis Walcott, a mandibulate arthropod from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale". Royal Society Open Science. 5 (6): 172206. Bibcode:2018RSOS....572206V...
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and sponge faunas of Guizhou and Anhui. Along with the Burgess Shale, the Maotianshan Shales are remarked as "our best window into the Cambrian 'explosion'"...
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Marrella (category Burgess Shale fossils)
North America and Asia. It is the most common animal represented in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada, with tens of thousands of specimens collected...
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Simon Conway Morris (section Burgess Shale)
biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. The results of these discoveries were celebrated...
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The Burgess Shale, a series of fossil beds in the Canadian Rockies, was first noticed in 1886 by Richard McConnell of the Geological Survey of Canada...
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Anomalocaris) and true arthropods. Re-examination in the 1970s of the Burgess Shale fossils from about 505 million years ago identified many arthropods...
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Sirius Passet, the Sinsk Algal Lens, the Maotianshan Shales, the Emu Bay Shale, and the Burgess Shale. The United States Federal Geographic Data Committee...
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Pikaia (category Burgess Shale animals)
an extinct, primitive chordate animal known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Described in 1911 by Charles Doolittle Walcott...
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Ottoia (category Burgess Shale fossils)
spurious grounds, the only clear Ottoia macrofossils come from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, which was deposited 508 million years ago. Microfossils...
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Opabinia (category Burgess Shale fossils)
regalis is an extinct, stem group arthropod found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (505 million years ago) of British Columbia. Opabinia was...
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Hallucigenia (category Burgess Shale fossils)
Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada and China, and from isolated spines around the...
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phosphatizing microbes. Soft-tissue fossils, such as those found in the Burgess Shale, are rare. In some cases their internal organs are replicated in phosphate...
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arthropod. The Geological Survey of Canada initiated a revision of Burgess Shale fossils in 1966, overseen by Cambridge University paleontologist Harry...
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is Marrella, with thousands of specimens found in the Cambrian aged Burgess Shale of Canada. The group is divided up into two major orders, Marrellida...
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fish. Pikaia, discovered much earlier (1911) but from the Mid Cambrian Burgess Shale (505 Ma), is also regarded as a primitive chordate. On the other hand...
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Leanchoilia (category Burgess Shale fossils)
Leanchoilia is a megacheiran arthropod known from Cambrian deposits of the Burgess Shale in Canada and the Chengjiang biota of China. L. superlata was about...
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Oikozetetes is known only from two types of cap-shaped shell found in the Burgess Shale and dated to about 505 million years ago. The two types are thought...
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Wiwaxia (category Burgess Shale fossils)
corrugata, which is known from hundreds of complete specimens in the Burgess Shale; other species are known only from fragmentary material or limited sample...
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arthropods constitute a group that has seen attention in connection with the Burgess Shale fauna. Several of the finds, including the enigmatic Opabinia and Anomalocaris...
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