The Burgess Shale

Collom, C. J., Johnston, P. A., & Powell, W. G. (2009). Reinterpretation of ‘Middle’Cambrian stratigraphy of the rifted western Laurentian margin: Burgess Shale Formation and contiguous units (Sauk II megasequence), Rocky Mountains, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 277(1-2), 63-85.

McCormick, C. A., Corlett, H., Roberts, N. M., Johnston, P. A., Collom, C. J., Stacey, J., ... & Hollis, C. (2024). U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 318.

Gaines, R. R., Hammarlund, E. U., Hou, X., Qi, C., Gabbott, S. E., Zhao, Y., ... & Canfield, D. E. (2012). Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(14), 5180-5184. 

Gaines, R. R. (2014). Burgess Shale-type preservation and its distribution in space and time. The Paleontological Society Papers, 20, 123-146.

Brett, C. E., Allison, P. A., DeSantis, M. K., Liddell, W. D., & Kramer, A. (2009). Sequence stratigraphy, cyclic facies, and lagerstätten in the Middle Cambrian Wheeler and Marjum formations, Great Basin, Utah. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 277(1-2), 9-33. 

Powell, W. (2009). Comparison of geochemical and distinctive mineralogical features associated with the Kinzers and Burgess Shale formations and their associated units. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 277(1-2), 127-140. 

Zhang, X. G., & Hou, X. G. (2007). Gravitational constraints on the burial of Chengjiang fossils. Palaios, 22(4), 448-453. 

Fu, D., Tong, G., Dai, T., Liu, W., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y., ... & Zhang, X. (2019). The Qingjiang biota—a Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China. Science, 363(6433), 1338-1342. 

Nanglu, K., Caron, J. B., & Gaines, R. R. (2020). The Burgess Shale paleocommunity with new insights from Marble Canyon, British Columbia. Paleobiology, 46(1), 58-81. 

Bath Enright, O. G., Minter, N. J., Sumner, E. J., Mángano, M. G., & Buatois, L. A. (2021). Flume experiments reveal flows in the Burgess Shale can sample and transport organisms across substantial distances. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), 104. 

Gabbott, S. E., Zalasiewicz, J., & Collins, D. (2008). Sedimentation of the phyllopod bed within the Cambrian Burgess Shale Formation of British Columbia. Journal of the Geological Society, 165(1), 307-318 

Gould, S. J. (1989). Wonderful life: the Burgess Shale and the nature of history. WW Norton & Company.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jellyfish-fossil-1.6924274 

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2490 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-508-million-year-old-fossils-may-be-earths-oldest-swimming-jellyfish-180982639/