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The Wheeler Shale (named by Charles Walcott) is a Cambrian (c. 507 Ma) fossil locality world-famous [1] for prolific agnostid and Elrathia kingii trilobite remains (even though many areas are barren of fossils) [2] and represents a Konzentrat-Lagerstätte.
Asaphiscus wheeleri, 37 mm long. Asaphiscus are average size trilobites of (up to 8 centimetres or 3.1 inches) with a rather flat calcified dorsal exoskeleton of inverted egg-shaped outline, about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 × longer than wide, with the widest point near the back of the headshield (or cephalon).
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The Marjum Formation is a Cambrian geological formation that overlies the Wheeler Shale in the House Range, Utah. [1] [3] It is named after its type locality, Marjum Pass, and was defined in 1908. [2]
Pseudoarctolepis (meaning "false Arctolepis") is an extinct genus of bivalved arthropod known from the Cambrian period. The type species, P. sharpi was described by Brooks & Caster in 1956 from specimens found in the Wheeler Shale of Utah. [1]
Chancelloria is a genus of early animals known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, the Comley limestone, [4] the Wheeler Shale, [2] the Bright Angel Shale [5] and elsewhere (such as Iran). It is named after Chancellor Peak .
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Gaines also works on Burgess Shale-type fossil assemblages in the Wheeler formation in House Range, UT. [18] With his work around the world on the Burgess Shale he is helping to resolve one of the great mysteries relating to the Cambrian Explosion; the mechanism for the precise preservation of these fossils.