Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Burgess Shale

The Burgess Shale Formation is one of the worlds most celebrated fossil fields. It is located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. It is one of the earliest fossil beds containing the imprints of soft-parts.

The pictures are of the following fossils: anomalocaris, wiwaxia, hallucigenia, opabinia, waptia, and marella.






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