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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
Burgess Shale [¦bər·jəs ′shāl]
(geology)
A fossil deposit in the Canadian Rockies, British Columbia, consisting of a diverse fauna that accumulated in a clay and silt sequence during the Cambrian.
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3) is the venue for talks to visiting groups and houses more exhibits, such as a replica Albertosaurus skeleton, an original cave bear skeleton, and a diorama recreating the environment represented in the Cambrian Burgess Shale in British Columbia.
The Waterloo Earth Sciences Museum by Russell, Peter I.; Motz, John E. / Geoscience Canada
Collaborative research by an international team has solved a century-old mystery in the ROM's Burgess Shale collection.
Monster vs. alien? ROM helps identify a massive odd-ball predator by ROM Magazine
The fossil fragments puzzled together come from the famous 505 million year old Burgess Shale, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in British Columbia, Canada.
500-mln yr old fossil sheds new light on origin of arthropods by Asian News International
 
 
 
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