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Science 14 October 1983:
Vol. 222. no. 4620, pp. 163 - 167
DOI: 10.1126/science.222.4620.163
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New Burgess Shale Fossil Sites Reveal Middle Cambrian Faunal Complex

DESMOND COLLINS 1, DEREK BRIGGS 2, and SIMON CONWAY MORRIS 3

1 Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada
2 Department of Geology, Goldsmith's College, University of London, London SE8 3BU, England
3 Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England

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.

Submitted on February 2, 1982
Revised on May 13, 1983


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