Directory of Burgess Shale Resources

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The famous Burgess Shale of British Columbia contains an exceptionally well preserved Cambrian fauna. This group of animals, which are preserved primarily as carbon films, is one of the earliest nearly complete record of the age of complex life, and opens a window into an ecosystem that died out hundreds of millions of years ago.

Resources in This Category

• Digital Burgess - Background in Paleontology and Digital Biota

  http://www.biota.org/conf97/explore.html
  Images of some Burgess Shale fossils.

• Digital Burgess Conference

  http://www.biota.org/conf97/
  Information from a conference on the Burgess Shale including professional papers.

• The Burgess Shale

  http://paleobiology.si.edu/burgess/
  The Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, provides an impressive exhibit of fossils.

• The Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation

  http://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/
  The world's most significant fossil find. High in the Canadian Rocky Mountains is a fossil bed that details life on Earth - 520 Million years ago.

Related Categories

• Home > Science > Earth Sciences > Paleontology > By Geological Interval > Paleozoic > Cambrian
• Home > Science > Earth Sciences > Paleontology > Regional > North America > Canada > British Columbia

 

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