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Burgess Shale

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Burgess Shale

Fossil formation containing remarkably detailed traces of soft-bodied marine organisms of the middle of the Cambrian Epoch (520–512 million years ago). Collected from a fossil bed in the Burgess Pass of the Canadian Rockies, the Burgess Shale is one of the best preserved and most important fossil formations in the world. Since it was discovered in 1909, over 60,000 specimens have been retrieved from the bed.


Burgess Shale
a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils


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She was reading ``Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History,'' which seriously boasted being a national bestseller.
The singular find is just one of the more than 25,000 fossils of its species collected from western Canada's Burgess Shale since 1912.
Together with the middle-Cambrian animals found in Canada's famous Burgess Shale, the Chengjiang fossil fauna reveals the diversity of life in the seas following the Cambrian explosion.
 
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