Talk:Burgess Shale/Sources

General

 * Early Animal Evolution: Emerging Views from Comparative Biology and Geology (Knoll & Carroll; Science' 1999) - "The Burgess Shale has achieved almost iconic status among fossil assemblages, and for good reason: it preserves a remarkably detailed record of Cambrian diversification." --Philcha (talk) 10:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The Burgess Shale Site 510 Million Years Ago - good for odd details --Philcha (talk)

Location and topography

 * The Rockies: A Natural History (Cannings; Greystone Books, 2007; pp 30-38) - how the Rockies formed --Philcha (talk) 15:07, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils (J. William Schopf; p29) - location, 8,000 ft up. --Philcha (talk) 16:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yoho National Park of Canada --Philcha (talk) 17:29, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * New Burgess Shale Fossil Sites Reveal Middle Cambrian Faunal Complex (Collins et al., Science, 1983) --Philcha (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Geology & taphonomy ("How the fossil beds were formed")
NB most of the well-known fossils come from the Greater Phyllopod Bed, but there have been important finds in other layers. Also good dgm of present-day layers / formations --Philcha (talk) 14:19, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The Burgess Shale: not in the shadow of the cathedral Escarpment (Ludvigsen; Geoscience Canada; vol 16 issue 2; 1989) --Philcha (talk) 17:31, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: In defense of the Escarpment near the Burgess Shale Foslil Locality (W.H. Fritz; Geoscience Canadavol 17 issue 2) - response to The Burgess Shale: not in the shadow of the cathedral Escarpment
 * Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale (Caron & Jackson; PALAIOS; October 2006; v. 21; no. 5; p. 451-465; DOI: 10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R)
 * Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion (Butterfield; Integrative and Comparative Biology 2003 43(1):166-177; doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.166 ) - describes "BS-type preservation". --Philcha (talk) 19:51, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The role of decay and mineralization in the preservation of soft-bodies fossils (Briggs; Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences Vol. 31 pp275-301; 2003; doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.31.100901.144746) --Philcha (talk) 09:35, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale (Caron & Jackson; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Volume 258, Issue 3, 18 February 2008, Pages 222-256; doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.023) - "The Greater Phyllopod Bed (GPB) corresponds to an estimated depositional interval of 10 to 100 KA" --Philcha (talk) 10:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada (A.D. Miall; Elsevier, 2008; p191) - geology --Philcha (talk) 16:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? (Jan Zalasiewicz, Kim Freedman; Oxford University Press, 2008; p206-209) - "almost a black shale"; anoxic?; ind anger of eclispe by Chengjiang; mudslides, metamorphic cooking -> thin carbon films; raising; "charmed life" "saved from transformation into roofing slate and billiard table". --Philcha (talk) 16:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Greenschist-facies metamorphism of the Burgess Shale and its implications for models of fossil formation and preservation (Wayne Powell; Can. J. Earth Sci. 40: 13–25 (2003) doi: 10.1139/E02-103) - contradicts 2 preservatino models, incl Butterfileds; consistent w 2 others --Philcha (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ubiquitous Burgess Shale–style "clay templates" in low-grade metamorphic mudrocks (Page et al; Geology; November 2008; v. 36; no. 11; 	p. 855-858; DOI: 10.1130/G24991A.1) - "there is little consensus regarding its taphonomy"; "their clay templates seem unremarkable, forming too late to account for exceptional preservation", i.e. debunks Butterfiled --Philcha (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Similar beds of similar age

 * Burgess Shale-type fossils from a Lower Cambrian shallow-shelf sequence in northwestern Canada (Butterfield; Nature vol 369, p 477 - 479; June 1994: doi:10.1038/369477a0) --Philcha (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * THE TAPHONOMY OF LOWER AND MIDDLE CAMBRIAN ARTHROPODS FROM THE PIOCHE SHALE OF NEVADA (MOORE, Rachel A. and LIEBERMAN, Bruce S; GAS Confex, 2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting) - not a source but may give leads --Philcha (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * "BURGESS BIOTAS" AND EPISODIC SLOPE AND EPEIRIC SEA DYSAEROBIA IN THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN--PALEOZOIC (LANDING; GSA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2001) - not a source but may give leads --Philcha (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

History of fossil collecting there

 * Smithsonian Institution secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott (Yochelson; Kent State University Press, 2001) - first fossils fond by Mrs Walcott? -Philcha (talk) 16:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Summary of fossils

 * Burgess Shale faunas and the Cambrian Explosion (S.C.M.; Science vol 246; 1989) - BS fossils representative of their time worldwide, this fauna persisted for most of Early & Mid Cm. --Philcha (talk) 17:31, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Moulting arthropod caught in the act (Nature vol 429, p40; 6 May 2004) - Marella
 * Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale (Caron & Jackson; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Volume 258, Issue 3, 18 February 2008, Pages 222-256; doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.023) - composition of community & variation over time; "probably highly dependent on immigration from a regional pool of species after each burial event" --Philcha (talk) 10:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (A.H. Knoll; Princeton University Press, 2004; p 192) - "Steve originally called his book Homage to Opabinia", "viewing it as key to the biological interpretation of Burgess fosssils" --Philcha (talk) 16:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * An Odontogriphid from the Upper Permian of Australia (Alexander 					Ritchie           & Gregory D. 					Edgecombe; Palaeontology Volume 44 Issue 5, Pages 861 - 874; 2003; doi 10.1111/1475-4983.00205) --Philcha (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Pterobranch hemichordates for comparison: http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/enc_biology/animals/ris._2_170.jpg, http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/enc_biology/animals/ris._2_172.jpg

Theoretical significance

 * The evolution of morphological diversity (M. Foote; Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1997; doi: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.28.1.129) - "about 90% of designs ultimately used by animals (considered as pairwise combinations of skeletal features) had already been exploited rather early in animal history" --Philcha (talk) 12:39, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * From weird wonders to stem lineages: the second reclassification of the Burgess Shale fauna (Brysse; Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Volume 39, Issue 3, September 2008, Pages 298-313; doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.06.004) - impact of cladistics on evaluation of the BS --Philcha (talk) 20:08, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Images

 * The Burgess Shale Site 510 Million Years Ago - could get Graphics Lab to make a similar one. --Philcha (talk) 19:51, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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