title: Misadventures in the Burgess Shale.
abstract: One hundred years after Charles Doolittle Walcott found a wealth of Cambrian fossils in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Desmond Collins reflects on the bumpy road of their classification.
authors.forename: Desmond
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Collins
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000846:Anniversaries and Special Events; D001955:British Columbia; D002965:Classification; D005580:Fossils; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century