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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 earliest Burgess Shale-type biota to be described, being documneted 25 years before the Burgess Shale itself. [47] Kaili Formation. 513–501 Ma Guizhou, China The middle part of the Kaili Formation, the Oryctocephalus indicus Zone, contains a Burgess Shale-type lagerstätte with many well-preserved fossils known collectively as the Kaili ...
Burgess Shale: Cambrian (Albertan) North America: Canada: British Columbia [Note 1] Calvert Cliffs State Park [Note 2] Calvert Formation: Miocene: North America: US: Maryland: Middle Miocene Climate Transition and Middle Miocene disruption: Goodsell Ridge, Isle La Motte (Lake Champlain) [Note 2] Chazy Formation: Ordovician: North America: US ...
The Burgess Shale is a series of sediment deposits spread over a vertical distance of hundreds of metres, extending laterally for at least 50 kilometres (30 mi). [18] The deposits were originally laid down on the floor of a shallow sea; during the Late Cretaceous Laramide orogeny, mountain-building processes squeezed the sediments upwards to their current position at around 2,500 metres (8,000 ...
Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS (24 March 1916 – 20 June 2010) was a British palaeontologist who made a major contribution to the study of fossils of the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fauna. [1] His works are largely responsible for the concept of Cambrian explosion , whereby modern animal body plans are explained to originate during a ...
Discovery of soft body preservation at the Walcott–Rust quarry pre-dates Walcott's discovery of the more famous Burgess Shale lagerstätte by 40 years. [ 5 ] Walcott left the area and active working of the quarry in 1876 (his wife Lura Ann died of tuberculosis on January 23, 1876) although he returned for brief periods throughout his career.
For instance, the Burgess Shale itself endured cooking at greenschist-level temperatures and pressures (250–300 °C, ~10 km depth [10] / 482-572 F, ~6.2 miles), while the Chengjiang rocks have been deeply affected by weathering. [1] The Burgess Shale has been vertically compressed by at least a factor of eight. [46]
The Mazon Creek fossils are found in the Upper Carboniferous Francis Creek Shale. [6] The type locality is the Mazon River (or Mazon Creek), a tributary of the Illinois River near Morris, Grundy County, Illinois. The 25 to 30 meters of shale were formed approximately , during the Pennsylvanian period.