Burgess Shale fossils The Burgess Shale is an exceptional Middle Cambrian age (about 540 million years ago) fossil locality located in Yoho National Park in the Rocky Mountains, near Field, British Columbia, Canada. The locality is special because of the soft-bodied preservation of a wide diversity of fossil invertebrate animals. The locality has been intensely studied since its discovery in ...

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Background Paleontology and Digital Biota I. The Burgess Shale and other Paleontology Resources Olenoides serratus Marrella splendens Anomalocaris frontal appendage/claw Vauxia gracilenta Ottoia Tuzoia Fossil images courtesy Andrew MacRae 1995 Andrew MacRae Andrew MacRae's Pages on the Burgess Shale Cambrian Explosion exhibit at the Brevard Zoo Brevard Cambrian Organisms by Kerry Clark U.C.