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Nature 460, 952-953 (20 August 2009) | doi:10.1038/460952a; Published online 19 August 2009
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Misadventures in the Burgess Shale
Desmond Collins1
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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.
This August marks the centenary of Charles Doolittle Walcott's discovery of the Burgess Shale — the fossil bed in the Canadian Rockies that first opened mankind's eyes to the wealth of animals living in Cambrian seas 505 million years ago. The fossil bed itself is famous; for decades 'Burgess Shale life' was synonymous with 'Cambrian life'.
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