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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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  • "Pseudoarctolepis sharpi, n. gen., n. sp. (Phyllocarida), from the Wheeler Shale (Middle Cambrian) of Utah". Journal of Paleontology. 30 (1): 9–14. ISSN 0022-3360...
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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...
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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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    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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    Mollisonia (category Burgess Shale fossils)
    first chelicerates. 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    being Ooedigera of Sirius Passet, Banffia of the Burgess Shale, and Skeemella of the Wheeler Shale). N. aldridgei is known from several incomplete fossils...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Kootenia (category Wheeler Shale)
    Commons has media related to Kootenia. Hagadorn, J.W. (2002). "Burgess Shale-type Localities: The global picture". In Bottjer, D.J.; W. Etter; J.W. Hagadorn;...
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  • 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 assemblages...
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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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    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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    Morania (category Wheeler Shale)
    as carbonaceous films in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. it is present throughout the shale; 2580 specimens of Morania are known from the Greater...
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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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