Burgess Shale formation is one of the world's most famous fossil fields do to the areas ability to preserve soft parts of a fossil. It is located in Yoho National Park near the town Field, Canada. The fossils are from the pre-Cambrian period (505 MILLION YEARS AGO). The fossil field was discovered in 1909 by paleontology Charles Walcott. Over his life, he collected 65,000 specimens from the area. The life forms consisted of a wide range of organisms. Including free swimming and bottom dwelling creatures. featured anomalocaris, opabinia, wiwaxia, marella, hallucingenia (505 Million Years Ago).
Above.. this is Pikaia. It's the ancestor to all humans and the first known living organism with a spinal cord.
Opabinia fever!
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