New Burgess Shale Fossil Sites Reveal Middle Cambrian Faunal Complex
- 14 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 222 (4620), 163-167
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.222.4620.163
Abstract
Soft-bodied and lightly sclerotized Burgess shale fossils have been found at more than a dozen new localities in an area extending for 20 kilometers along the front of the Cathedral Escarpment in the Middle Cambrian Stephen Formation of the Canadian Rockies. Five different fossil assemblages from four stratigraphic levels have been recognized. These assemblages represent distinct penecontemporaneous marine communities that together make up a normal fore-reef faunal complex.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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