The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.[2][3] It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years old (middle Cambrian),[4] it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.
The rock unit is a black shale and crops out at a number of localities near the town of Field in Yoho National Park and the Kicking Horse Pass. Another outcrop is in Kootenay National Park 42 km to the south.
^Lexicon of Canadian Geological Units. "Burgess Shale". Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
^Butterfield, N. J. (1 February 2003). "Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 43 (1): 166–177. doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.166. ISSN 1540-7063. PMID 21680421.
^Clements, T.; Gabbott, S. (2022). "Exceptional Preservation of Fossil Soft Tissues". eLS. 2 (12): 1–10. doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0029468.
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The BurgessShale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation...
a list of the biota of the BurgessShale, a Cambrian lagerstätte located in Yoho National Park in Canada. The BurgessShale is a fossil-bearing deposit...
The fossils of the BurgessShale, like the BurgessShale itself, are fossils that formed around 505 million years ago in the mid-Cambrian period. They...
(particularly the BurgessShale) of British Columbia, Canada. The other species A. daleyae is known from the somewhat older Emu Bay Shale of Australia. Other...
satisfactory answer. American paleontologist Charles Walcott, who studied the BurgessShale fauna, proposed that an interval of time, the "Lipalian", was not represented...
spurious grounds, the only clear Ottoia macrofossils come from the BurgessShale of British Columbia, which was deposited 508 million years ago. Microfossils...
fieldensis Walcott, a mandibulate arthropod from the middle Cambrian BurgessShale". Royal Society Open Science. 5 (6): 172206. Bibcode:2018RSOS....572206V...
regalis is an extinct, stem group arthropod found in the Middle Cambrian BurgessShale Lagerstätte (505 million years ago) of British Columbia. Opabinia was...
understood the significance of mudrocks since the discovery of the BurgessShale and the relatedness of mudrocks and oil. Literature on this omnipresent...
North America and Asia. It is the most common animal represented in the BurgessShale of British Columbia, Canada, with tens of thousands of specimens collected...
Anomalocaris) and true arthropods. Re-examination in the 1970s of the BurgessShale fossils from about 505 million years ago identified many arthropods...
well-preserved fossils, including some of the oldest soft-part imprints, in the BurgessShale of British Columbia, Canada. Charles Doolittle Walcott was born on March...
biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the BurgessShale and the Cambrian explosion. The results of these discoveries were celebrated...
Sirius Passet, the Sinsk Algal Lens, the Maotianshan Shales, the Emu Bay Shale, and the BurgessShale,. The United States Federal Geographic Data Committee...
Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian aged fossils in BurgessShale-type deposits in Canada and China, and from isolated spines around the...
an extinct, primitive chordate animal known from the Middle Cambrian BurgessShale of British Columbia. Described in 1911 by Charles Doolittle Walcott...
and sponge faunas of Guizhou and Anhui. Along with the BurgessShale, the Maotianshan Shales are remarked as "our best window into the Cambrian 'explosion'"...
chordate known is Pikaia gracilens, a lancelet-like animal from the BurgessShale in British Columbia, Canada. The discoverer, Charles Doolittle Walcott...
Leanchoilia is a megacheiran arthropod known from Cambrian deposits of the BurgessShale in Canada and the Chengjiang biota of China. L. superlata was about...
phosphatizing microbes. Soft-tissue fossils, such as those found in the BurgessShale, are rare. In some cases their internal organs are replicated in phosphate...
Oikozetetes is known only from two types of cap-shaped shell found in the BurgessShale and dated to about 505 million years ago. The two types are thought...
arthropod. The Geological Survey of Canada initiated a revision of BurgessShale fossils in 1966, overseen by Cambridge University paleontologist Harry...
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin...
explosion, starting about 539 million years ago, in beds such as the Burgessshale. Extant phyla in these rocks include molluscs, brachiopods, onychophorans...
fish. Pikaia, discovered much earlier (1911) but from the Mid Cambrian BurgessShale (505 Ma), is also regarded as a primitive chordate. On the other hand...
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