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* 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
With Parks Canada and UNESCO recognising the significance of the Burgess Shale, collecting fossils became politically more difficult from the mid-1970s.
Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life, published in 1989, brought the Burgess Shale fossils to the public's attention.
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In the early 1990s this led him into a debate with Derek Briggs, who had begun to apply quantitative cladistic techniques to the Burgess Shale fossils, about the methods to be used in interpreting these fossils.
However, natural gratings do occur in some invertebrate marine animals, like the antennae of seed shrimp, and have even been discovered in Burgess Shale fossils.
Complete body fossils have been formally described from the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan shales of Yunnan, China ( Eognathacantha ercainella Chen & Huang and Protosagitta spinosa Hu ) and the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia ( Oesia disjuncta Walcott ).
The Maotianshan shales form one of some forty Cambrian fossil locations worldwide exhibiting exquisite preservation of rarely preserved, non-mineralized soft tissue, comparable to the fossils of the Burgess Shale.
Like the younger Burgess Shale fossils, the paleo-environment enabled preservation of non-mineralized, soft body parts.
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Charles Doolittle Walcott found in the Burgess Shale nine almost complete fossils of Opabinia regalis and a few of what he classified as Opabinia media, and published a description of all of these in 1912.
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They are known from fossils found in the middle Cambrian Burgess shale of British Columbia, and from the Wheeler Formation in Utah.
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Amiskwia is a large, soft-bodied invertebrate of unknown affinity known from fossils of the Middle Cambrian Lagerstätten both in the Burgess shale formation in British Columbia and the Maotianshan shales of Yunnan Province, China.
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In particular, the Burgess Shale, located in Yoho National Park, has among the world's richest deposits of rare fossils.
A portion of the Burgess Shale fossils were discovered on Mount Stephen.
The original nomination and IUCN's recommendation drew attention to the area's " exceptional natural beauty ", " habitats of rare and endangered species " and its natural landforms such as mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, canyons, limestone caves, and the unique Burgess Shale fossils.
* 1909 — Cambrian fossils in the Burgess Shale are discovered by Charles Walcott.

fossils and Shale
Posidonia Shale ), Amaltheenton ( Amalthean Clay ), Numismalismergel ( Numismalis Marl ) and Obtususton ( Obtusus Clay, named after Asteroceras obtusum ) succeeding from south to north, all belonging to the Jurassic and being rich in fossils.
Trilobite fossils are relatively common in the region west of Delta ( part of the Wheeler Shale of Middle Cambrian age ).
Above the Chagrin Shale is Cleveland Shale, a Devonian formation which is an important source of local fossils.
Trilobite fossils are relatively common in the region west of Delta ( part of the House Range's Wheeler Shale ).

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Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.
The fossils of Ardipithecus have not yet been studied by researchers beyond the original ( 2009 ) group of describers, and the paleobiology and relationships of these creatures are the subject of controversy.
All identifiable fossils of Albertosaurus sarcophagus are known from the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Alberta.
Like most of the other vertebrate fossils from the formation, Albertosaurus remains are found in deposits laid down in the deltas and floodplains of large rivers during the later half of Horseshoe Canyon times.
The fauna of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation is well-known, as vertebrate fossils, including those of dinosaurs, are quite common.
Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants ; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.
The two genera, Triops and Lepidurus, are considered living fossils, having not changed significantly in outward form since the Triassic.
Early fossils are mainly of erect forms, but encrusting forms gradually became dominant.
This protection explains why fossils preserved further from the Cathedral Formation are impossible to work with — tectonic squeezing of the beds has produced a vertical cleavage that fractures the rocks, so they split perpendicular to the fossils.
Bourne contends that as most Gigantopithecus fossils are found in China, and as many species of animals migrated across the Bering land bridge, it is not unreasonable to assume that Gigantopithecus might have as well.
Gigantopithecus fossils are not found in the Americas.
As the only recovered fossils are of mandibles and teeth, there is some uncertainty about Gigantopithecus's locomotion.
A species of Paranthropus, such as Paranthropus robustus, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot's identity, despite the fact that fossils of Paranthropus are found only in Africa.
All of the earliest chordate fossils have been found in the Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, and include two species that are regarded as fish, which implies they are vertebrates.
Annelids such as Serpulites are common fossils in some horizons.
Among the fossils it contains are sea urchins, belemnites, ammonites and sea reptiles such as Mosasaurus.
Warm-adapted plant fossils are known from localities as far north as Alaska and Greenland, while dinosaur fossils have been found within 15 degrees of the Cretaceous south pole.
Non-avian dinosaur fossils are found only below the K – T boundary, indicating that they became extinct during the boundary event .< ref > A very small number of dinosaur fossils have been found above the K – T boundary, but they have been explained as reworked fossils, that is, fossils that have been eroded from their original locations then preserved in later sedimentary layers.

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