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    Wheeler Amphitheater, House Range, Millard County, western Utah, the Wheeler Shale consists of a heterogeneous succession of highly calcareous shale,...
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    Maotianshan Shales, which is often compared to Burgess Shale Paleobiota of the Burgess Shale Wheeler Shale, also compared to Burgess Shale Lexicon of Canadian...
    23 KB (2,509 words) - 16:01, 20 June 2024
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    Anomalocaris (category Wheeler Shale)
    (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. Other...
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    Places Oil shale – Organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen Shale gas – Natural gas trapped in shale formations Wheeler Shale – Geologic...
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    Hallucigenia (category Wheeler Shale)
    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 world...
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    well-known Elrathia kingi trilobite is found in abundance in the Cambrian Wheeler Shale of Utah. Spectacularly preserved trilobite fossils, often showing soft...
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    Aysheaia (category Wheeler Shale)
    prolata was described as a separate species from the similarly-aged Wheeler Shale Formation of Utah but in fact represents the frontal appendage of a...
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    Skeemella (category Wheeler Shale)
    is a genus of elongate animals from what is now the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale and Marjum lagerstätte of Utah. It has been classified with the vetulicolians...
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    Isoxys (category Wheeler Shale)
    Jago, Gehling & Lee, 2009 Emu Bay Shale, Australia, Cambrian Stage 4 Isoxys communis Glaessner, 1979 Emu Bay Shale, Australia, Cambrian Stage 4 Isoxys...
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    Ottoia (category Wheeler Shale)
    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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    Elrathia (category Wheeler Shale)
    fossils in the USA locally found in extremely high concentrations within the Wheeler Formation in the U.S. state of Utah. E. kingii has been considered the...
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    Leanchoilia (category Wheeler Shale)
    is a megacheiran arthropod known from Cambrian deposits of the Burgess Shale in Canada and the Chengjiang biota of China. L. superlata was about 5 centimetres...
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    Sidneyia (category Wheeler Shale)
    from the Early to the Mid Cambrian of China and the Mid Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Sidneyia inexpectans reached lengths of at...
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    Thelxiope (category Burgess Shale fossils)
    species T. palaeothalassia is known from the Burgess Shale, Canada T. holmani is from the Wheeler Shale of Utah, Thelxiope tangi from the Linyi Lagerstätte...
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    Chancelloria (category Wheeler Shale)
    known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, the Comley limestone, the Wheeler Shale, the Bright Angel Shale and elsewhere (such as Iran). It is named...
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    Wiwaxia (category Wheeler Shale)
    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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    Kennesaw State. Wheeler played for the Giants' minor league teams in 2010 and 2011 before he was traded to the Mets in July 2011. Wheeler then rose through...
    60 KB (5,642 words) - 20:52, 5 October 2024
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    Marjum Formation is a Cambrian geological formation that overlies the Wheeler Shale in the House Range, Utah. It is named after its type locality, Marjum...
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  • Crumillospongia (category Wheeler Shale)
    Crumillospongia is a genus of middle Cambrian sponges known from the Burgess Shale and other localities from the Lower and Middle Cambrian. Its name is derived...
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    Canadaspis (category Wheeler Shale)
    belonging to C. perfecta, are also found in the Spence Shale of western Utah as well as the Pioche Shale of Nevada. Canadaspis laevigata comes from the Chengjiang...
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    Choia (category Wheeler Shale)
    Choia have been found in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia; the Maotianshan shales of China; the Wheeler Shale in Utah; and the Lower Ordovician Fezouata...
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    Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons...
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    Perspicaris (category Wheeler Shale)
    primarily the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada but also possibly the Wheeler Shale, Marjum Formation, Pioche Shale and Bloomington Formation...
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    Cothurnocystis (category Wheeler Shale)
    Cothurnocystis is a genus of small enigmatic echinoderms that lived during the Ordovician. Individual animals had a flat boot-shaped body and a thin rod-shaped...
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    Margaretia (category Wheeler Shale)
    Margaretia is a frondose organism known from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale and the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. Its fronds reached about 10 cm...
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    Gogia (category Wheeler Shale)
    Notable localities where species are found include the Wheeler Shale of Utah, and the Burgess Shale of British Columbia.[citation needed] The species of...
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    Tuzoia (category Wheeler Shale)
    Canada, Parker Shale, Vermont, Pioche Shale, Nevada Kinzers Formation, Pennsylvania, USA Tuzoia australis Glaessner, 1979 Emu Bay Shale, Australia Tuzoia...
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    Mollisonia (category Burgess Shale fossils)
    Cambrian arthropod. Species are known from the Burgess Shale, Langston Formation, and Wheeler Shale of North America, as well as the Chengjiang Biota of...
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    was described by Brooks & Caster in 1956 from specimens found in the Wheeler Shale of Utah. It is unusual among Cambrian arthropods for having a pair of...
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    Naraoia (category Wheeler Shale)
    Columbia, Canada. When the fossil was first discovered in Canada's Burgess Shale, it was believed to be a crustacean, such was the difference between this...
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