The author is a Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Fourteen photographic plates are included in the article, which is followed ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This accession consists of glass plate negatives of specimens from the Burgess Shale in the Rocky Mountains, near Field, British Columbia, Canada, ...
The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its exceptional preservation of soft tissues in fossils, including limbs and guts. While trilobites are abundant in the fossil record thanks to ...
a, A complete specimen with antennae and limbs (USNM PAL 65510). b, Limbs of GSC 34695a showing various degrees of flexure and extension. The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its ...