![]() He returned in 1910 with his sons, daughter, and wife, establishing a quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge. The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott on 30 August 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork. Another outcrop is in Kootenay National Park 42 km to the south. The rock unit is a black shale and crops out at a number of localities near the town of Field in Yoho National Park and the Kicking Horse Pass. At 508 million years old ( middle Cambrian), it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints. ![]() It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. ![]() Map highlighting Yoho National Park in red ![]() Yoho National Park and Kootenay National Park Ottoia, a soft-bodied worm, abundant in the Burgess Shale. ![]()
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