Opabinia
Hallucigenia
Marella
Waptia
Wiwaxia
Monday, April 4, 2011
Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale is a fossil field located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. In 1909, paleontologist Charles Walcott discovered the Burgess Shale. He was intrigued by this particular fossil field because of it's unusually exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. Some of the fossils commonly found in the Burgess Shale are the following: anomalocaris, wiwaxia, hallucigenia, opabinia, waptia, and marella.
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