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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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Gallery of Earth and Early Life n Opening 2009/2010 The record of life and the story of species extinction will be told through exceptional fossil specimens and artifacts from the Earth's distant past, including the ROM's internationally respected collection of Burgess Shale fossils.
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