Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type
@article{Roy2010OrdovicianFO, title={Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type}, author={P. Roy and Patrick J. Orr and J. Botting and Lucy A. Muir and J. Vinther and B. Lef{\`e}bvre and K. E. Hariri and D. Briggs}, journal={Nature}, year={2010}, volume={465}, pages={215-218} }
The renowned soft-bodied faunas of the Cambrian period, which include the Burgess Shale, disappear from the fossil record in the late Middle Cambrian, after which the Palaeozoic fauna dominates. The disappearance of faunas of Burgess Shale type curtails the stratigraphic record of a number of iconic Cambrian taxa. One possible explanation for this loss is a major extinction, but more probably it reflects the absence of preservation of similar soft-bodied faunas in later periods. Here we report… CONTINUE READING
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