Paleontology: a new Burgess Shale fauna.
A spectacular Cambrian soft bodied fauna some 40 km from Walcott's original Burgess Shale locality includes over 50 taxa, some 20% new to science. New anatomical evidence from this site will illuminate the evolution of early marine animals.
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: derek.briggs@yale.edu.
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D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001955:British Columbia; D043344:Chordata / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification; D002910:Chronology as Topic; D005580:Fossils; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification; D010163:Paleontology / Q000639:trends*