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Close ✕Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park
A Middle Cambrian deposit of about 508 million years old on Fossil Ridge between Wapta Mountain and Mount Field in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, and the most consequential fossil…
51.4, -116.5 · approximate · fossils c. 508 Ma; quarried from 1909
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- instance of Konservat-Lagerstätte (exceptional preservation) — Burgess animals are preserved as flattened carbon films retaining gills, guts, eyes and limbs, which requires rapid burial and anoxic conditions.
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